[SunRescue] re: [OT] Reliable net access in the boonies

[Chris Byrne]

I'm lucky enough to live in the second most wired place on the planet (the
stretch of east coast between central Maryland and northern VA is of course
the most wired. Thank you NSA ;-).

Most apartment complexes around here ofter some type of built in high speed
access, usually a DSL provider in a local CO. I'm even more lucky in that my
complex has something way better. We have two OC3's coming into our complex,
divied out to the phonelines as 1.5Mb SVC's

My latency to the nearest major node (MAE west usually, but PacBell has some
weird peering arrangements) is almost always <50ms, I usually see real world
speeds of between 600 and 800k synchronus out to the actual net, and the
full 1.5mb up to the head end of my provider.

If I ever have to move I'll probably go through withdrawal. Yes we are the
houshold that transfer 60+ files from napster at the same time ;-)

 Chris Byrne

-----Original Message-----
From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of Jonathan Katz
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 20:59
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] re: [OT] Reliable net access in the boonies


On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 05:43:46PM -0800, James Lockwood wrote:
> For being able to take the setup anywhere in the lower 48, I could.  It
> would have to be a business class service, though, with uptime
> committments, better uplink speed, and a routed IP block.
>
> The residential service just doesn't measure up to my standards.

For $50/mo I'm in.

A while back I was thinking of dropping a box
(read router) in at mae-west or at paix-- if I could find folks to go
in with me. Everyone would be responsible for their line costs or
"virtual route" to my router at the co-lo site plus a small fee to cover
the big expense of co-location there. Most places you can run a "empty"
two-wire copper feed to your local CO for $20-$60/mo-- drop in your own
DSL equipment at the CO and at home, (dsl router at home, dsl to oc-3
at the CO... you could effectively use a dsl router and a SS5 w/ ATM card)
then get a friend at a fibre provider (uunet/qwest/mfs) to carve you a
(small) PVC to "my" box at paix. I only would have to pay for one fibre
drop from mfs/qwest/whoever to my box there, and "boom" we have our own
fast ISP.

Since paix is too much money, and www.indyx.com is a lot closer to
where I live... except indyx.com is gone... *shrug* gotta do some
research there.

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