| Kevin at MSN technical support, 1-877-327-6744, made the following suggestions regarding how to access MSN from an Internet appliance. He said that it's possible with MSN, even if you use the same dial-up number all the time, for you to end up connected through a different DNS number each time you log in. He said if my webplayer is browsing okay, not to mess with it, because the DNS number assignment can be unpredictable with MSN, depending on the dialup number you use as well as the type and even the version of the browser and appliance. But he said if it's not working, like Nikola's, the probable solution is to ask the MSN program to permanently assign a manual DNS number to your login account instead of allowing the address to be newly and possibly differently selected through MSN each time you log in. He explained that this is how you do that: 1. Be LOGGED IN to MSN on your main computer, not the web browser. 2. Click start, run, then type in the program name which is winipcfg, and click okay. 3. That brings up the screen titled "IP Configuration." At the bottom of that IP Configuration screen, click "More information." 4. After you click "more information," it will take you to the screen that shows the DNS server. 5. Write down the DNS server # and click OKAY, and then (so they say) this will make the DNS assignment always stay the same, even when you log in through the appliance. 6. Use the number you wrote down as the entry for both the primary and secondary DNS numbers when you fill in the settings to program the appliance (webplayer). (Incidentally, the # that winipcfg showed for me was 198.6.1.98, and if you click the little square to the right of that, winipcfg gives I guess an alternate number which maybe isn't really an alternate (?) in this case, 198.6.100.98). | |
