Internet

Using the Internet and Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

This page was written by Christopher Spry. There is a short guide to the major internet bodies that control it.

Index:

1. Internet
2. Internet Service providers (ISPs)

1. Internet

'CyberAtlas' statistics of Internet usage etc.

CyberCafes, searchable listing world-wide.

Designing a Web Site, the Microsoft way.

Domain names, list of two letter names e.g. 'uk'

'Four11' Search for email addresses, residential telephone numbers, and NetPhone users.

Hardware control over WWW.

'Internet Handbook' WWW Server, Canada.

Internet telephone software and resources index.

Internet use statistics, Gopher, Merit Co.

Internet traffic data resources, Merit Co.

'InterNIC', Internet Network Information Centre which registers domain names.

JISC National Mirror Service, providing the UK academic community with high-speed, highly available mirrors of free software resources that originate on remote sites.

Lecture on the Web, Imperial College.

'Medicine & the Internet on the WWW', Oxford University Press.

MBONE (Multicasting Backbone) networking for video etc.

'MBONE. Multicasting Tomorrow's Internet' Five chapters from a book on the MBONE.

'MEDNET 96' European Congress of the Internet in Medicine. Brighton UK. 14-17 October 1996.

National Information Initiative documents.

'Navigator' plugin resources Cosmo player etc. from Netscape.

Search for the owner of a domain name at InterNIC.

UK WWW servers Lists at Imperial College.

VocalTec, Internet Phone Company.

VisualRoute has links to the following documents relating to Internet and its structure:

APNIC - Asia Pacific Network Information Center
ARIN - American Registry for Internet Numbers
DNS LOC - by the co-author of RFC 1876
ICMP.DLL - Microsoft's ICMP API
IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force
Internet Traffic Report
Internet Weather Report
InterNIC - Domain Name Registration Service
ISP Locator - Locate an ISP by area code
List of useful RFC's (Ohio State)
NANOG - The North American Network Operators' Group
NOC contact information
RFC 954 - WHOIS protocol specification
RFC 1034 - Domain Names - Concepts and Facilities
RFC 1035 - Domain Names - Implementation and Specification
RFC 1118 - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Internet
RFC 1180 - A TCP/IP Tutorial
RFC 1206 - New Internet User FAQ
RFC 1207 - Experienced Internet User FAQ
RFC 1700 - Assigned Numbers
RFC 1876 - A means of expressing location information in DNS
RFC 1918 - Address Allocation for Private Internets
RFC Editor - Request For Comments Editor
RFC Index at Ohio State University
RIPE - Réseaux IP Européens (Europe registry)
Russ Haynal's ISP Page
SprintLink -- MCI -- UUNET -- PSI -- vBNS -- Verio
TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1 - W. Richard Stevens
Understanding IP Addressing - Introduction to CIDR
www.sockets.com - WinSock Development Information

2. Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

ISPs

Listed by country at Topology.org and TheList
Indexes of UK ISPs at 'Internet Magazine'.
Webperf has information on the relative performance of ISPs in different countries, including the U.K.
ISPs I have used outside the UK to enable local phone-rate access to Internet and my email accounts. When signup pages are in a language you do not know, use Babelfish to translate the web pages..
- Barbados: Sunbeach Communications Inc., A '15 Hour Account' costs BB$35.00. There are no free ISPs in Barbados.
- France: FreeSurf; Free. You need a French address and telephone number. Free.
- Italy: Virgilio.it The signup is In Italian. Free.
- USA.: 'Yahoo! Geocities'. It is free but has advertizing.

Free ISPs in the UK with local telephone dialup numbers

Bigwig.net provides up to five free email accounts with free digital certificates, Usenet news and 10-MB web space. It was launched on 01/10/1998. Register at http://www.bigwig.net/join/application.htm and wait to receive a login name and password via email. Then visit http://ww.bigwig.net/auto and set up the account. There are separate local-cost telephone numbers for 'normal' modem connections, K56FLEX modems, X2 modems, 64K ISDN and 128K ISDN. They support 'FrontPage server extensions' for people who author and 'publish' webs using 'FrontPage98'.
British Library.
BT 'Clickfree'
FreeNet provides up to five free email accounts, Usenet news and 5-MB web space. They provide connections of V34, Kflex56k, V90, X2 and ISDN 64k, 128k. They charge £49 for software and support which inexperienced users may need.
FreeUK.
Freeserve provides up to five free email accounts, Usenet news and 25-MB web space. Use the guide at http://www.tech-info.freeserve.co.uk to setup an account, on-line or obtain a CD called ‘Freeserve CD’ from Dixons or Currys shops, or from current ‘PC World’ or ‘The Link’ magazines. Support and Customer Services.
Tripod.
VirginNet.

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