The first challange which occurs during a streaming session is of course to get onto the Internet with a possibly new computer at a brand new, unknown place. In this chapter the basics are taught to plug the cable into the right place and to get onto the Internet, even if it is not directly available without knowing the specific configuration. For the unexperienced user it is also often quite hard to tell if he or she is actually on the Internet. If s.th. goes wrong, the usual way is to reboot and to try it again. You will learn how to prevent unnecessary rebooting times.

In this chapter the following topics are handled:

• Which cable goes into which jack?
• Which main connection scenarios does exist? Which are the ways to get onto the Internet?
• how to get really part of the Internet, receiving an IP-address. Which are the ways and which addresses are used
• what is the domain name system and how to connect to the Internet, even when this name resolution is not working properly
• The main connection tools and also the main control tools are introduced. In this last part of this chapter the main troubleshooting tools are shown up.