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Instructions

To connect to TelBox you simply need a telnet client. For most users, you can connect simply by typing telnet telbox.net in a terminal/command prompt.

However, most operating systems don't have telnet enabled by default anymore. Below are instructions for getting telnet on MacOS and Windows.

Enabling/Installing Telnet

Old Macs

• Grab BetterTelnet and transfer to your mac. Open it.
• Hit ⌘+O to open a connection and enter telbox.net for the hostname and hit connect
• If that doesn't work, you might have DNS issues. You can connect directly by IP to 67.205.173.100 (This may change - do a dig telbox.net +short on a modern mac to find the current IP)

Modern MacOS

• If you have brew installed, simply run brew install telnet and you should then be able to run telnet telbox.net
• If you want to have sixel image support, consider using iterm2 instead of the default Terminal app. See other options at arewesixelyet.com.

Modern MacOS Alternatives

• Go to the app store and install MuffinTerm, a free, BBS-focused telnet client. Alternately, check out Welly
• Open MuffinTerm and open a new window if one does not pop up
• Hit ⌘+K to quick connect and type in `telbox.net``

Windows

• Click Start and under search type in CMD
• Right click on CMD and click on Run as administrator
• Enter the Administrator password if it prompt
• Then type in dism /online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:TelnetClient and hit Enter to enable the Telnet Client.

Windows Alternative

• Download Putty
• Select telnet as the protocol and enter telbox.net as the hostname

Registering an account on TelBox

Once connected to telbox, type signup <handle> <password> <password-again> replacing the arguments with your desired handle and your password twice. Note that passwords with quotation marks are not recommended because of the way commands are parsed