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Road Runner: Dial Access in OS X - How to
Posted at June 27, 2008 8:58 pm | In Research | By Ben Woodruff
Tags: Research, Software, Technology
I’ve blogged twice before about my frustrations with Time Warner Cable’s Road Runner Dial Access (here and here).
Reading those posts I’ve found it’s not very clear on how exactly how to accomplish connecting to the Road Runner network via dial-up using an OS X system (namely 10.5 Leopard).
I decided that the best way to explain how to do this is with a video.
Video: Dial Access in OS X ZIP (25.6MB) [Compressed - Recommended]
Video: Dial Access in OS X MP4 (30.2MB)
Both of the links will get you the same file, but the first is compressed so it will automatically download rather than possibly trying to stream, depending on your browser settings. The video is fairly high resolution (somewhere between 720 and 1080p).
Here is the script.txt file I mention in the video:
PPP Terminal Script - script.txt
And here is the video that explains installing it (it belongs in /Library/Terminal Scripts):
Video: How to save script.txt
Hopefully in the future Road Runner will fix this, but personally I prefer this method. I would rather not have to have extra software installed in order to do something that my system is already capable of doing.
I would appreciate comments on this post regarding if you found this helpful or not. Do you prefer a video to text? Did this work for you?
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Ben,
Thanks so much for this. Right now I’m using a free dialup to do all of these communications with you and so it’s going to take awhile,(approx. 2-3 hours), to get the file, but I’m sure it’ll be worth it.
Also, while I’m here, I’ve got to say that in all of the searches I’ve done in the past few days, trying to deal with this, your site is the only one that was up-to-date from what I could see. Well, I’m off to watch this file zooom!
Thanks for helping out…. I’ll let you know, tomorrow, if it works
Comment by Val — June 27, 2008 @ 9:59 pm