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Use the following connection
This setting is displayed if you define your connection individually.
Reference: Configuration options
The Updater automatically detects which connection options are available. Connection
options that are not available are grayed out and cannot be activated. A dial-up
connection can be established manually via a phone book entry in Windows, for
example.
User
Enter the user name of the selected account.
Password
Enter the password for this account. For security reasons, the actual characters you
type in this space are replaced by asterisks (*).
Note
If you have forgotten an existing Internet account name or password, contact
your Internet Service Provider.
Note
The automatic dial-up of the updater through so-called dial-up tools (e.g.
SmartSurfer, Oleco, etc.) is currently not yet available.
Terminate a dial-up connection that was set up for the update
If this option is enabled, the dial-up connection made for the update is automatically
interrupted again as soon as the download has been successfully performed.
Note
This option is not available under Vista and Windows 7. Under these operating
systems the dial-up connection opened for the update is always terminated as
soon as the download has been performed.
Download
Priority server
In this field, enter the update directory and URL of the web server that will first be
requested to provide the update. If this server cannot be reached, the standard servers
indicated will be used. The format for the address of the web server is as follows:
http://[:Port]/update. If you do not specify a
port, port 80 will be used.
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