• Go to the Apple icon in the upper left-hand corner of the screen
• Go to the Control Panel Folder
• Select PPP

• Enter your user name
• Enter your password
• "Check" Save Password if you do not want to be prompted for your password again
• Enter your Local Access Number
  Lookup your access number here 
• Click "Options"

• Set the "Redial" option to "Redial main number only."
• Set it to redial 10 times.
• Set it to wait 5 seconds between each try.
• Click the Connection tab.

• "Connect automatically when starting TCP/IP applications." - YES
• "Use Verbose Logging" - NO
• "Flash icon in menu bar while connected." - YES
• "Prompt Every 5 Minutes to Maintain Connection" - NO
• "Disconnect if Idle for 10 minutes" - NO
• Click Protocol Tab

• Allow error correction and compression in modem - YES
• Use TCP header compression - YES
• Connect to command line host - NO
• CLICK OK
• Close the PPP Control Panel
  • If you are asked to save settings, click "SAVE"

SET UP MODEM

• Go to the Apple icon in the upper left-hand corner of the screen
• Go to the Control Panels Folder
• Select Modem

• Connect Via.. Select the Modem Port
• Modem.. Select your Modem
• Sound.. On
• Dialing.. Tone
• Do NOT Check "Ignore Dial Tone"
• Close this Panel.. If prompted to save.. click "Save"

• Go to the Apple icon in the upper left hand corner of the screen
• Go to the Control Panel Folder
• Select TCP/IP

• Go to the Edit Menu and choose "User Mode"
  • This will bring up the panel below...
    
    
  • Set it on "Advanced"
  • Click "OK"... this will bring us the "Advanced Options" (see below)

• Configure the TCP/IP Panel as follows:
  1. Set "Connect via" to "PPP"
  2. Set "Configure" to "Using PPP Server"
  3. In the Name server addr: box, type in the DNS addresses.
     • 208.201.152.2
     • 208.201.152.3
  4. In the box below Starting domain name, type empire.net
  5. In Additional Search domains, type: empire.net
  6. Leave the Ending domain name blank.
  7. Refer to the above picture to verify that your settings are correct.
• Click the Options button.

• Select "Active"
• Put a check in front of "Load only when needed"
• Click OK