You can... you will (as the game by now is little more than an enhanced chat room :->)
The main problem by now with a dial-up is downloading the client, and the first connection. Once that\'s done, you can go walking around in the little test city. and eventually talking to the people if you happen to find s/b connected...
Anyway, a next release will come up in not much time (one month or two, I believe) with many bugs fixed, and lots of new features... so it will sure be worth the wait :->