Internet Tutorials | John Faughnan | Robert Elson

MSP Internet Connections

[Jan 2003: This is years and years out of date, but someone actually asked me to fix a URL here, so I did fix it. Most of the URLs here are of obscure historic interest. All the ISPs I mentioned in the original are gone, I replace them all with one I use now.]

Minneapolis-St. Paul and surrounding area: local service providers and other ways to get connected.

(See also: Getting Connected, Rural Internet Access Solutions, MindSpring- A Typical ISP)

Contents

• Local Internet Service Providers
• Cyber Cafes
• Libraries

Local Internet Service Providers

Commercial (home and small business)

(partial list - no endorsement or evaluation)

• Visi.com: www.visi.com

Academic

Just about anyone can join the U of Minn alumni association and get their inexpensive rates, but don't expect much support. See also libraries, below.

• UMn Alumni http://lighthouse.micro.umn.edu/WBStaff/faq/faqnet.html (or call 624.2323)

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Cyber Cafes

Here you can browse the net for a few dollars an hour while enjoying your beverage of choice.

• CyberX http://www.cyberx.com/
  (612) 824-355
  LOCATION: SE Corner of Lake and Lyndale, Mpls (near Uptown)
  HOURS: open till midnight every day; open at 7 am M-F, 8 am Sat, 9 am Sun
• Cahoots Coffee Bar (non-smoking section)
  1562 Selby Ave
  St.Paul, MN 55104
  (612) 644-6778
• Coffee & Bytes Cyber Cafe http://twincities.sidewalk.com/detail/28768
  1500 S Lake St
  (Hwy 97 & US-61)
  Forest Lake, MN 55025
  (612) 982-0709
• Rudies Coffee House: www.rudiescoffeehouse.com
  1169 West Seventh St.
  (651)291.1963

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Libraries

• Minneapolis Public Library (300 Nicollet Mall) 372-6500
  (30 mins./patron, first-come-first-serve)
  Minneapolis N.E. Community Library and Minneapolis S.E. Community Library
  http://www.ci.mpls.mn.us/departments/other/library.html
• Other Libraries - call your local library and ask if they have computers with a web browser that you can use.
• Some college libraries will allow you to use their machines if students are not using them. This may be an unofficial policy.

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This document is based in part on one done by Phil Zumsteg.