Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Patrick_A_Townson
From: Patrick_A_Townson@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: CompuServe and others
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Date: 30 Mar 88 06:17:31 GMT
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Mike Hampton (jedi@clark), stationed in the Phillipines, asks about getting
access to Compuserve from afar --

By far the easiest, and probably most effecient method is by using the
data network of the Phillipines and connecting to Telenet here in the
United States. The Telenet NUI, or Network User Identification is 3101. That
is, from over there you would connect to the local node, and make connection
to 03101xxxxxxxxx, where xxxxxxxxx is the nine digit network address on
Telenet for Compuserve. If you are entitled to use the military data network
for personal communications, you can probably do the same thing. Tell it
to switch you into Telenet, 3101, and once on board, use whatever instructions
CIS gives its subscribers to connect from Telenet.

You are looking at a few extra dollars per hour of connect time, but it will
be a real time connection. Not delayed and confused, as would be ARPA or UUCP,
both of which [can] connect via circuitous gateways into/from MCI Mail to CIS.