Take Your WebTV Box With You

Here's the trick for that. Prior to turning the box on tap your Options key and hit 2 1 7 (two one seven) then turn the box on and you'll be taken to the dialing options screen and click on Basic and add a 9 (nine) or whatever the outside access code is and you're good to go. BTW also click Done. BTW the TV in your room should be set to Channel 3 and remember to take all remote controls with you plus I take a 25 foot telephone base cord aka line cord.

The hard drive is at the WebTV file server in California not in your unit which is also why the WebTV box can not catch a virus like computers do.

If you're out of town or a location other than your present connection place you'll be asked --Same Place-- or --Moved-- click on Moved. The server knows where you are then and will use a local ISP to connect you automatically.

If you like to check the area you're travelling to for local access numbers here's a site to check.

1. If there's a digital room phone and system here's a workaround tried and tested by yours truly. This requires a modular splitter in addition to a suggested length of a 25' modular line cord.
2. Plug the splitter into the wall jack where the existing digital line cord is and that line cord goes to the room phone and have the long line cord ready to go into the LBB ... but do not plug in yet.
3. After dialing for an outside line and hearing that dial tone from the digital room phone plug in the other line cord to the LBB and turn on, click moved and let the box dial ... do this fast so the dial tone does not time out.
4. Unplug the handset from the digital room phone once a connection is established.
5. This requires the room TV tuned to channel three (3) and that coax to the in of the LBB and out to the TV where the coax was originally.