When you arrive at a dSpot location, set your computer or PDA to search for available Wireless Networks. Assuming that you are in range of the dSpot you should see 'Free_dSpot' appear. Highlight this and click 'Connect' - if all is ok then you should find yourself connected to the dSpot. Often your laptop will connect automatically.

Open your web browser and you will be directed automatically to our Toolbar installation pages. After completing the simple and anonymous form you will be invited to download our small Toolbar program. Choose to 'run' and it will install it (it's very small) and this will place a dSpot Toobar icon on your desktop. Note: Our toolbar requires Microsoft DotNet and if this is not already installed on your computer then you may need to download and install it. You will be informed of this if it is necessary.

The dSpot Toolbar must be running when you want to use the dSpot so double click this new icon to start the dSpot Toolbar - it takes just a couple of seconds to synchronize and authenticate.

You can then return to the Web Browser and start browsing the Internet or open up your Email program to send and receive email. There is no need to make any changes to your email settings to use our services.

When you return to any dSpot in future, simply connect to the Wireless Network and start the dSpot Toolbar from your desktop.

If you attempt to access the dSpot without the Toolbar running then you will receive an error message. This also happens if the Toolbar version is out of date and needs to be updated.

Whilst you are connected to the dSpot you will see small ads appearing on the screen and then disappearing a few seconds later. These ads pay for the service and we make them unobtrusive and yet hopefully of interest to you. They might include free items and services from local vendors so we encourage you to click them when they are of interest. As part of our conditions of use you are required to click on at least on ad every 10 minutes.

You can move the ad around on your screen so that it doesn't interfere with anything that you are working on.

Whilst we monitor the web sites and keywords that your computer accesses in order to display relevant ads, we NEVER hold ANY information that can be used to identify you personally.