Accessing the Web - Requirements?

Becoming an End User of the Web

If you wish to browse the World Wide Web you will first need a connection to the Internet and depending on your requirements you can determine which particular Internet Service Provider suits your needs. It is possible to access the Web through an EMail interface but generally if you want real time access to the Web your Internet Service Provider will need to be TCP/IP connected to the Internet. After this there are a number of considerations to be made:

Browser Method: Email (least preferrable), Telnet to Public Site, Text Mode Browser or Full Graphics Browser?
Run the Browser on your Internet Service Providers host(s) or your own?
Are you going to be IP connected (TCP/IP, PPP, SLIP) to your Service Provider and thus to the Internet or not?
Permanent, Semi-Permanent or User Driven Connection? Dial-Up, ISDN or Leased Line, etc?
What Bandwidth between you and your Service Provider?
What Bandwidth does your Service Provider have and how much will you be sharing this?

After you are connected you may have a choice of Browsers you can use.

Becoming an Information Provider on the Web

If you wish to become an Information Provider on the World Wide Web you will need to answer a number of similar questions to the above along with a few new ones which are covered in a later slide (See Creating an Information Server?).

Electronic Commerce on the Internet - WWW (World Wide Web) - the "Glossy Brochure"
Rodney Campbell [Rodney.Campbell@Telstra.com.au]
(c) Copyright 1995 Telstra Corporation.

Last modified: Fri Apr 21 19:53:58 1995