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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 00:00:00 -0500
- From: Peter Tindall <peter.tindall@canrem.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Internet or Dial Out Access From Canada to US
- Message-ID: <telecom12.925.8@eecs.nwu.edu>
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 925, Message 8 of 9
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- > But unfortunately this service dissapeared and PC Pursuit is
- > unavailable from Canada. Does anyone know of a similar service that
- > could be available from Canada or an internet service without per
- > minute fees available from Canada?
-
- I spoke to Sprintnet last month -- they indicated that PC Pursuit could
- be available for Canada early in the new year.
-
- > [Moderator's Note: A service called Canada DataPak has a gateway to
- > Telenet/Sprintnet. I know nothing about the rates, but you could use
- > it to connect to Telenet/Sprintnet then into the PC Pursuit service.
- > I do not think the Canada DataPak rates would be all that expensive
- > compared to DDD rates. You'd have to check it out with them. PAT]
-
- Datapac (correct spelling) -- is a much more expensive alternative
- than Telenet/Sprintnet. Even so you cannot use it to connect to PC
- Pursuit.
-
- Here in Toronto, we have a local Sprintnet port, but because Sprint
- has not (yet) sold PC Pursuit in Canada, we have been unable to use it.
-
- (A discussion with a Sprint employee revealed that with a US billing
- address -- there was no technical reason that PC Pursuit would not work
- from within Canada (ports in Tor, Montreal and Vancouver)).
-
-
- Regards,
-
- Peter Tindall Internet: peter.tindall@canrem.com
- VE3TJP Mississauga, Ontario
- Canada Remote Systems - Toronto, Ontario
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-
-
- [Moderator's Note: Well excuse me, but both the literature from
- Datapac and (the old) Telenet (I am reading something from 1985) say
- that Datapac gateways into Telenet for 'various USA services including
- Compuserve ...'. Now-a-days (1992) I think the Compuserve network
- does its own thing with Datapac ... am I wrong on this? Does the
- gateway exist but PC Pursuit is specifically excluded from using it
- (given the USA billing address, etc ...)? And doesn't Datapac run its
- own outdial service in various cities in Canada something like PC
- Pursuit, or more likely the business version of PCP which Sprintnet
- offers?
-
- Several years ago there was a bug in the Telenet network which allowed
- calls to be made from this country to Canada Datapac network addresses
- which were outdials. The same bug allowed PC Pursuit ID's to connect
- all over the world using the (then) unlimited usage flat rate style
- PCP accounts. For more information on this, see my 1988 article "Let
- Your Fingers Do the Walking" in which I discussed some of the curious
- international network connections achievable: some as mundane as
- connecting to the British Telecom (data network's) Master Clock
- service, the on-line terminal on the 'help desk' at the Hong Kong
- Telephone Company (someone there would chat with you on line) and
- something called 'Mercury' in Japan which would provide various tests
- and test patterns, along with the time expressed in JST. Telenet was
- not happy with me for writing that article, but the bug disappeared
- soon thereafter, as did the unlimited usage PCP accounts a couple
- years later in lieu of the $30 for 30 hours deal they have now. PAT]
-
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