Dial up Utilities

• TICK - Here's a very useful, feature-packed freeware dial-up enhancement utility for Windows 98 and 95. Features extensive logging options and offers a POP3 mail checker, finger, ping, Web notifying tools, a pop-up digital display and loads more goodies. There's also a handy feature to help you keep track of all your passwords. 439 kilobytes. (For Windows 98/95).
• Intercent 99 - Here's a helpful free utility from the Netherlands that makes it easy to keep track of the time you spend online. Intercent keeps a time log, as well as calculating the cost of each separate online session and cumulative time and costs. Easy to use. (For Windows: 1.1 megabytes). Available in Dutch and English languages.
  
• Keep It Alive - Does your Net service provider bump you offline if you haven't been actively browsing for 10 minutes or so? Then you'll love this freeware utility, which keeps your dial-up connection alive. (461 kilobytes. (For Windows 98/95). Works with AOL.
  
• Mr. Internet - (Direct download: 28 kilobytes) Mr. Internet is a excellent, free app that sits in your Windows' system tray (by the clock) and allows you to launch your Internet connection, Web browser, FTP client, E-mail client, chat client, and news client! It can also automatically click on the connect button on the "Connect to" dialog box, thus saving you a step in getting online.
  
• freeDUM - (Site is temporarily down). Here's a nifty free utility that replaces Windows 95's lame dial-up manager. Features an Explorer-like interface, a custom dialer and records log profiles, phone numbers, time online and disconnect info, (if you're bumped off-line.) freeDum will also automatically launch applications for you.
  
• NetLaunch - Here's an essential free utility that sits idly in your system tray just waiting for you to make a Dial-Up Networking connection. When it senses a connect or disconnect event, it will launch or close programs that you've configured. Adding programs to the Launch List is just a matter of "drag and drop" and each program can be configured individually. Each Dial-Up connection can be configured independently, as well. Highly cool. Here's a screen shot. NetLaunch is offered in several languages, including Chinese, Dutch, French, Italian, Russian and more. 102 kilobytes. (For Windows 98/95).
  
• Lemondialer - A free dialer utility that offers an excellent way to connect to the Net. Lemondialer features a high-performance timer with customization cost calculation. There's an easy-to-use log system with monthly reports and printing capabilities. Lots of features, including redial when busy and autoconnect on startup and much more.
  
• Multi-RAS - This free utility lets you use multiple modems simultaneously to access the Net. It works even if you have to log into multiple ISPs or use different login names for each dialup. To connect with more than one modem at a time, you may need to download Microsoft's Dial Up Networking version 1.2b. For Windows: 762 kilobytes.
  
• Dunce - This free utility makes it much easier for you to get connected. It'll even "click" the connect button for you and launch four programs of your choice. This program can save you a lot of time if you spend much time online. After a while, you'll wonder how you lived without it.
  
• Logtime - A freeware program that allows you to track your online time and costs while connected to your Internet service provider. Supports a wide range of options that allow you to configure it to handle your ISP charging schemes. Comes in Win 32, Win 16 and Linux versions.
  
• SuperCharger - Here's a powerful free utility that can help speed up your Net browsing. Its "SuperCache" technology stores the IP addresses of your favorite Web pages in a special cache, which can mean much faster page load times. SuperCharger also optimizes certain "hidden" default settings in the Windows 95/98 and NT registry to reconfigure or "tweak" the DialUp Networking Adapter (DUN).