Accessing Your Internet Account; Using The World Wide Web - Gateway EC19C User Manual

Cable and DSL modems, a connection known as broadband, use your cable television
or special telephone lines to connect to your ISP and access the Internet. In many
instances, broadband is considered an always-connected service. With this type of
service, your cost is the same regardless of the amount of time you use your Internet
connection.

Accessing your Internet account

click Help and Support. Type ISP in the Search Help box, then press E
The method you use to access your Internet account varies from ISP to ISP. Contact
your ISP for the correct procedure.

Using the World Wide Web

The World Wide Web is a multimedia window to the Internet that gives you access
to millions of information sources.
Information on the Web comes to you on
that you view using a Web page display program called a
of the commercially available Web browsers, like Microsoft Internet Explorer or
Netscape Navigator.
Web pages can contain text, animations, music, and other multimedia features. A
group of related Web pages is called a
track investments, read the news, download programs, and much more.
You can explore a Web site or visit other Web sites by clicking areas on a Web page
called
animated image. You can identify a link by moving the mouse pointer over it. If the
pointer changes to a hand, the item is a link.
To learn more about using the Web browser features, click Help in the menu bar.
Web
page
www.gateway.com
Help
For general information about using Internet accounts, click Start, then
links hyperlinks
or . A link may be colored or underlined text, a picture, or an
Linked Web
page
NTER
Web pages
, which are electronic documents
Web site
. You can access Web sites to shop,
Link
.
browser
. You can use any
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