[COLUG] RoadRunner dial-up magic?

[Dave]

On Dec 17, 2006, at 11:56 AM, Mike Schoenborn wrote:

> Over the river and through the woods to narrow-band land we go.
>
> At our holiday destination, 28kbps is the only available connection to
> the real world.   Years ago I put a Windows partition on the laptop
> and installed RR's dialup package, but when I inspected what all was
> done, felt it was a little too "invasive" for my liking, and wiped it.
>
> Does anyone know the send-expect magic and ppp params to get
> and old-style modem connection to Road Runner?

I have a PowerBook and at one pointed installed the Mac version of  
RR's dialup package and used it. This past summer I just used Apple's  
standard dialup software and it worked. I can't say for certain if it  
was still making use of anything that RR's package provided. You'll  
need to use their software to get a list of the access phone numbers  
(unless you can find that online somewhere).  I do remember it used  
the username w/ domain name (rremail at columbus.rr.com). I suspect it  
needs to be the main username they gave you when you signed up. Give  
it a try before you leave w/ just the standard expect user, send your  
usename, expect password, send your password.

HTH,
Dave