[SunRescue] NEW THREAD!! ISP related

[Cyrus M. Reed]

I'm using a cable hookup from AT&T @Home (eewwww :), on which the speed
varies wildly (sometimes it will just stop working altogether).  I'd
prefer DSL of some sort, but alas, I'm too far away.  As for
workstations, I've got a dual PPro 200 with 128MB RAM running Linux,
which also doubles as a file server for my Mac Duo 230 laptop in it's
DuoDock (nice for typing papers and telnet sessions).  I'm ashamed to
say I don't curently have any Sun machines, but someday I hope to give
one a good home. :)

-Cyrus

Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> 
> > -----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
> >
> [snip]
> >
> > 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
> 
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