DNTools 1.2
Copyright Brent Seeley, 1998.

DNTools, or Dial-Up Networking tools is a suite of apps all rolled into one.
It is designed to speed-up and simplify your Dial-up Networking connection,
as well as help you monitor your connection activity. DNTools Optimizes your
Dial-Up Networking settings, improving the performance of all your
Internet programs.

FEATURES

  *  Optimize your Dial-Up Networking performance to speed up your connection
      without any new hardware.  This includes setting the MaxMTU, Receive
      window, Session Time to Live(TTL), SessionKeepAlive, PMTUAutoDiscovery,
      and PMTUBlackHoleDetect.
  *  Gain easy access to hard to find Dial-Up Networking Options such as
      Redial. 
  *  Turn off the username and password 'connect' dialog box to accelerate
      connecting to your ISP.
  *  Monitor network activity using the TCPIP statistics graph to determine
      your transfer speeds.
  *  Estimate phone company charges.
  *  Set your computers clock using the National Institute of Standards and
      Technology time server, which is set by the Atomic Clock in Boulder CO.
      Set an update interval on continuously running computers to regularly
      update your systems date and time.  The shareware version is limited to
      updates a minimum of every five days, there is no limit in the
      registered version.
  *  Send Session Keep Alive packets to help recover stalled downloads. 


NEW in version 1.2

  *  Improved time client - it now allows automatic time updates.  The time
      client now uses a list of time servers, if one is not availabe it moves
      onto the next one.
  *  Log connection statistics.
  *  Use Auto-Ping to prevent frequent disconnections from your ISP.
      The minimum ping interval in the shareware version is 15 minutes, the
      limit is only 1 second in the registered version.
  *  Manage your TCPIP Hosts file to speed up connecting to you favorite
      sites.  You can import your most frequently visited addresses directly
      from your Netscape Navigator, or Internet Explorer bookmark files.
      DNTools will search for them directly.



REQUIREMENTS

    Windows 95/98
    Microsoft Dial-up Networking version 1.2 or higher.

CONTACT

    Brent Seeley
    BSeeley@Cache.net

    Questions will be answered on the web site.  Please see the help file and
    the online FAQ before asking any questions.
    The FAQ and a list of known bugs will be maintained at the program web
    site

               http://www.cache.net/~bseeley/DNTools/



