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Tether offers dialup Internet access to MIT. You can acquire a Tether account during the IT setup session during IAP. Contact the LGO-SDM IT folks and they will point you to who to contact for an account. Tether is useful for dialing in if you don’t already have a dialup Internet service provider or broadband at home. MIT’s MIT’s administration believes that everyone should come to campus to do work, so dialups aregrudgingly supported at best. They work, but they can be terribly slow on the server side as if Kbps line speeds were not slow enough on their own. There is also a specialized vocabulary to learn, most terms defined elsewhere in this document. If you are dialing up, you are considered to be off-campus. You You will want a wifi card if you don't have one already, as wifi is the preferred network connection method and supported pretty much everywhere on campus.
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