ISP-Hooking Up and Checkout Assignment-II

The purpose of these assignments is to verify that you can use Email, browsers, and effectively search the internet for information. The following four subtasks are required.

- ISP- E-mail- Browser and web search- Ftp down load- The results for this task will be recorded in a file

named AssignmentII_YourName in your directory on Bullnose

ISP

• Search the internet for ISP services and vendors• Rate the ISP candidates for the following customers

(use “things to look for” criteria from ISP presentation)– Personal home use– Traveling business man– Small business I.e. restaurant

• State the main reason the vendor you selected is a good choice for the customer type

• ADD: URL and reason for each choice to your Assignment II file

E-mail• Find the location of your E-mail (*.pst)

files

• Make a personal folder in an appropriate directory. For example: C:\mail\yourpersonalfolder.pst

• Find your mailbox and Address files

• Add screen copy of the search results to you AssignmentII file.

-Alt,PrintScreen followed by Paste

Web Search• Surf the web for a site(s) on a topic of interest to you

– Possibly a resource for your project– Possible an interesting application

• Use Advanced search to reduce the number of hits. Record the search string and number of hits.

• ADD: the search string and number of hits as well as the resource reference page to you Assignment II file.

• I recommend you start to Build a topic resource reference page for your project research– Either HTML , word or power point

FTP down load

* Get an FTP client from the web or down load the WS_FTP.Zip from the Class Notes page

* Find and Contact an FTP server (example ftp.aol.com) and download a file

* Window copy the Ftp window and place in your Assignment file.

Assignment II File Content

ISP Table: Customer type

Criteria

Screen copy of e-mail file search

Search StatisticsQuery 1 # of hits

Query 2 # of hits

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Screen copy of FTP transfer