[CS-FSLUG] MetConnect/A Favor of My Friends in New York

[Fred A. Miller]

On Tuesday 07 June 2005 9:24 pm, Timothy Butler wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>      I have a friend who will be in NYC for a few short months and I
> ran into MetConnect today... apparently, an entirely free dial-up ISP
> for those in NYC. http://www.metconnect.com .  It looks like it
> should work with GNU/Linux. Question: has anyone in NY tried this
> service? If not, would you mind filling out the form, which only
> requires you to pick out a username and password, and then trying to
> dial up to it?
>
>      I tried it from St. Louis, but I'm wondering if they won't
> accept calls outside of a certain region... I do not get a busy
> signal, rather I get an "all circuits are busy" recording no matter
> which number I try. If I could find out if it works, that'd be great.

Well, you may also want to try it tomorrow, as it's POSSIBLE the lines are 
down. Much of the State had VERY bad thunderstorms yesterday - we had over 
7,000 without power over night in our area alone. I don't do dialup, so I 
can't check it.

Fred

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