[SunRescue] NEW THREAD!! ISP related

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tim_hauber at STEV.net [mailto:tim_hauber at STEV.net]
> Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2000 10:22 AM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [SunRescue] NEW THREAD!! ISP related
> 
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> 
> Now that the question of ISPs is out there, how fast a line 
> does everyone
> have to their homes?  I'm living at 33.6 dial up, gatewayed to 4 or 5
> machines most of the time.

I'm running a ADSL line from USWest that's advertised at 256K.  It actually
syncs up at either 384 or 512 downstream, depending on the weather.
Upstream is ALWAYS 272.

Gateway is a 486-50 with 16MB of ram.  My workstations are an SS20 with dual
SM41s and 128MB of ram, and an AMD-k6-2 300 with 128 (soon to be 256) of
ram.  I've also got my brothers machine going on this line, which is an AMD
k6-2 350, with 64mb of ram.  Depending on when we run the cable, my parents
machine will be online in the next couple of weeks.  It's the most
impressive machine of the bunch: 486-66, 48MB of ram, running Win95 (very
first release, with many patches), uptime is consistently over 2 months.
Slow as a dog, but it never crashes.  My ss20 never crashes either, but it's
also running a REAL os.  :)
	Greg