On Sun 25-Jun-1995 12:26p, RFuller@oakhill.avcnet.org (Roger Fuller) wrote:
RF> A dedicated leased line for AVCnet may in fact be overkill. And there may
RF> be a solution right in our midst.
RF> We have been talking with Mike McFadden in Aurburn about sharing their
RF> line. Auburn has a line and it is underutilized, according to them. It RF> might be the place to begin, even if we have to switch service providers, RF> as they have the equipment to handle the routering and switching, I
RF> believe.
RF> Secondly, by subscribing to a shared line, we can all pay less, and at the
RF> same time lower the costs for the city of Auburn. Mike has been looking
RF> into this possibility for some time and may have an answer for us soon.
This sounds great but there is something to consider. Over the past year i've been doing personal research and i've found the most Internet provdiders will NOT allow you to share your feed with other systems. The ones that do charge quite a bit more. I think that Auburn would have to check there contract to see if they can infact share it with AVCNET. On top of this you have to ask yourself what kind of feed they have. If its a 56k feed they maynot be able to support more then 5 or so dedicated systems. This includes there own machines. Depending on the traffic of news, email, telnet, ftp, irc, gopher, etc.. It wouldn't take much use at all to kill the bandwith on a 56k line!
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