The Shiva Dialler is included with Netscape Personal Edition and with Internet Explorer for Windows 3.1. Certain Shiva versions have slight differences. You can launch Shiva by double-clicking on its Internet Dialler icon.

• Here you enter your username/password and the phone number you are dialing.
• Click the Properties button, to check settings:

• Start with the Locations tab:
  • Enter the information for your location, the phone #, and any special information for your phone line (such as Call Waiting, dial "9" in an office or hotel.)
• Click on the General tab:
  • Here you can personalize how your connection works, such as:
    • automatically starting Netscape when you connect
    • setting an idle timeout after a period of inactivity.
  • It also contains information on how to login, or to invoke a manual login terminal.
• Click the Modem tab:
  • Here are some of the modem settings.
  • The modem can be redetected by clicking on Change Modem.
  • In all Shiva versions the only way to change the init string is to edit the modems2.ini file located in either c:\netscape\dialler or c:\iexplore (depending on the version used).
• Click on is Service Provider (in the newer version of Shiva: TCP/IP).
  • Enter Mondenet specific settings here:
    • Domain Name Server (DNS) addresses (206.191.48.2 and 206.191.48.3)
    • the Domain Name (mondenet.com).
• Click OK to Exit properties.
• Click Dial to Connect.