Here are the basics for the USR Sportster ISDN for Setup. The first thing you want to note is that these are Internal Cards that plug straight into the BUS and, as such, do not use a Comm Port and do not have limitations of the Serial devices (i.e. you'll get 128K performance out of 'em). Secondly, this document assumes that the USR Sportster ISDN software is already installed.
This is what the Sportster ISDN Manager looks like. There is a little sports car in the task bar for Windows 95 that you can double click on to bring this Manager up. Click on the "Configuration Settings" button to get the next screen.
This Screen has but one item of interest, that being the "Turbo PPP" option. If it is checked then MultilinkPPP is on, if it's unchecked then Multilink PPP is off.
Under the "Telephone Company Tab" you'll be interested in the "Switch Type" box, the "Phone numbers required for this switch" option and the "Phone #" and "SPID" for the 1st and 2nd line. There are three possible switchs to choose from:
The AT&T 5ESS CustomIf you have a AT&T 5ESS with Point to Point configuration, you'll select the "1" for "Phone numbers required for this switch" and you won't put in any SPID's. For all other switch types (including the AT&T 5ESS Multipoint) you'll select a "2."
The National ISDN (NI-1)
The Norther Telecom DMS-100 Custom
The "Phone #" is the directory number (DN) and the SPID's are, obviously, the SPID's which will fall under the conventions whatever conventions a given Telco lays out.
The above picture is just to show you that you, the user, will have to decide upon an I/O address and an IRQ. You'll find this under the "Adapter Board" tab. This is something that might take some figuring out. If it comes to that, USR would be more than happy to help you out on that (I had some goofy configuration on the computer I installed this on and they cleared it up in seconds). The setup shows you what is being used, but there are some devices that do not reserve I/O address and/or IRQ's, so you must find out about and fix potentual conflicts with this.
This last picture from the Sportster Manager is from the "Intstalled Components" tab. You'll note that the picture shows Dial-Up Networking as well as WinISDN. The Dial-Up Networking part is a new feature added by some new drivers from MicorSoft. This does not come with the USR Sportster ISDN card (at least not the one I got). The drivers are available from http://elroy.usr.com. WinISDN is usable only with Netmanage Chameleon (at least as far as I know). If you have Windows 95 I'd HIGHLY recommend that you get these drivers. You shouldn't use both drivers at the same time.
After you've configured the USR Sportster ISDN card and you reboot, this little thingy should come up. It just gives you the status of your ISDN network. If you've configured something incorrectly, the lights won't all be green. Nifty, huh?
You think you are done configuring things now that you get all these green lights flashing at you, don't you?.....Well, you're wrong...MicroSoft hasn't made it that easy yet. You must set up stuff in DUN to correspond to what you have in your Sportster ISDN manager or it simply won't work. First you'll need to "Make" a connection.
You go ahead and "Make a New Connection" in DUN and then do a properties on your dialer to get this screen. Call your connection whatever you'd like and select the "Sportster ISDN 128K Dial-Up" as your modem.
Put your phone number in 'n stuff...you know the drill. This will make a new dialer icon for you.
Single click on the new icon you've created with your right mouse button and select properties.
After you do a "properties" on the dialer, you'll get this screen. Click "Configure."
Under the "Connection" tab you need to set the speed. This is per channel and it will either be 56 or 64 depending upon what your phone line is capable of. Then hit the "advanced" button.
The advanced option will yield this. You need to choose the right switch, yet again, next to "Switch Protocol". There will be several more options, however, than just the three in the Sportster ISDN Manager.
You also need to put in the DN in for the "Phone Number" and put in the SPID in the appropriate place to.
Note that they call the first channel "0" here and the second "1." Click on either 0 or 1 and click on the "Modify" button to change these.
Put in the SPID and DN information accordingly. Repeat for other channel if neccessary.
Then Click "OK" twice back to your main "properties" screen and then click "server type"
In "server type settings" the only item that should be checked is "TCP/IP." "Enable Software Compression" SHOULD NOT be checked. Then Click on "TCP/IP properties"
This is the same as a modem setup.
This one is the same as well, *yawn*, though you will note that I put in the full 11 digit phone number. In some areas you have to put all 11 digits in or it won't work. Just a note in warning.
That is all.