[P1] anyone know any good call by call dialup ISPs in California?

[Mike Beede]

On Tuesday, Jan 28, 2003, at 09:48 US/Central, Harry D.Corsover wrote:

> ----- On 1/28/03 5:31 AM MDT (-0600), Jack Rodgers
> <jackrodgers at earthlink.net> wrote, in part:
>
>> On Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 12:48  AM, Joe Dombrowski wrote:
>>
>>> That was not at all my experience at the Hilton.  I just plugged in 
>>> my
>>> ethernet cable and then switched the networking preferences from
>>> AirPort to Built-in Ethernet.  Apparently not all networks are that
>>> Mac friendly.
>>
>> You found the secret. You have to tell your Mac which option to use.
>
> Not always. I switched those same preferences at the hotel, and it 
> didn't
> recognize the network. I didn't have the time to call their tech 
> support,
> so I just plugged into their phone "data" jack (which had the correct
> polarity, unlike the data jack on the high-speed modem next to the 
> phone).

Did you have DHCP enabled?  Also, I erased the original message--were
you running OS X?

Regards,

	Mike