Using your prepaid calling
card to dial an Internet Service Provider?
For users of Windows and Dial-up Networking
This phone card tip is one
of the best out there, read carefully!
Step
1. Double click "Make New Connection" icon
and create a dial-up connection, say, named "ISP with
my calling card".
Step
2. Double click "ISP with my calling card".
A "Connect To" window will open up. Enter user
name and password. You may click the save password button
for convenience.
If you'd like to create a dial-up connection for repeated
use, you need to go through Steps 3 through 7. Otherwise,
you can jump to Quick Start.
Step
3. Click the Dialing Properties button. A new window
will pop up. Fill the small window with the number you need
to dial in order to access an outside line for long distance.
The number is usually 9 or 8. It should be listed in your
hotel phone menu or available from the front desk.
Step
4. Click the button
in front of Dial using Calling Card and then click the
Change button. A window named "Change
Calling Card" will appear. Click the New button. Fill
your calling card name in the new window and click OK.
Step
5. In the Change
Calling Card window, click on the Advanced button. In the
new window "Dialing Rules",
click on the button Copy From. In the "Copy Dialing
Rules" window, select 'MCI via 1-800-674-0700" and
click on the OK button. In the "Dialing Rule" window,
a string of numbers and characters will appear in the input
fields. In the input field underneath Long distance calls,
change 8006740700 to the 800 or local number of your phone
card. Then click the Close button.
Step
6. In the Change Calling Card window, enter your calling
card number and/or PIN number. Click the OK button.
Step
7. In the Dialing Properties window, click the OK button.
Step
8. In the Connect To window, a long string of numbers
and characters will appear in the Phone number field. It
should look like:
1800xxxxxxx,,,,,,T Your Phone
Card Number ,, Your ISP number
Make sure that your ISP number
includes the area code. Click on the button"Connect" . If
the voice prompt of your card comes on slowly, you may add
a
few more commas to increase the pulse between dialing.
Quick
Start: A simpler way to dial your ISP with a calling
card is to edit directly the phone number field according
to the format described in Step 8 in the Connect To window
without going through Steps through 7. Then click the Connect
button. However, you need to type in the long string of numbers
and characters every time if you choose this method.
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