[SunRescue] NEW THREAD!! ISP related

[nick at ns.snowman.net]

You might want to consider IDSL.  I'm fairly sure some ppl are more
familiar with than I am, but as I understand it'll run just this side of
anywhere.  There are limits, but if you have cable you're likley to be
able to get IDSL.  Just to throw in my two cents I've got SDSL from UUNet
384k.  It's not bad, but for UUNet it's had lots of problems.  
	Nick

On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Cyrus M. Reed wrote:

> 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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