# Is there any way I can establish an Internet connection without Dial Up Networking..

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 29, 2001, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-way-i-can-establish-an-internet-connection-without-dial-up-networking/90256 "2001-10-29T07:13:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Royal\_Sampler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/82dd89/32.png) [@Royal\_Sampler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Royal_Sampler)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-way-i-can-establish-an-internet-connection-without-dial-up-networking/90256/1 "2001-10-29T07:13:39Z")

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…using Windows 95?

I started a thread not long ago asking a similar question…

[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=94223](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=94223)

But neither Winsock Trumpet nor the DUN 1.3 upgrade work on computers that don’t have Dial Up Networking installed to begin with.

Is there any way I can get an internet connection established? Is there a program that I can download off the internet that is a Dial Up Networking _alternative?_

One that I can put on a disk and take home to my Win 95 comp?

Any answers are much appreciated.

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**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-way-i-can-establish-an-internet-connection-without-dial-up-networking/90256/2 "2001-10-29T08:31:23Z")

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Start you’re own ISP.

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**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-way-i-can-establish-an-internet-connection-without-dial-up-networking/90256/3 "2001-10-29T10:43:27Z")

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What are you trying to accomplish? Why don’t you want to use DUN?

BTW, I have never used AOL (and, believe me, I _never_ will) but I have heard they do not use the Windows DUN but their own scheme. Is this true? If not now, was it ever true in the past?