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Article #673Re: Freeserve time, Home highway & linux
From: Paul Carpenter
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 00:00
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 00:00
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nick@webthing.com "Nick Kew" wrote:
-In article <307.395ce347.d463d@scgf>,
- gsmh@gmx.net (Phillip Deackes) writes:
->
-> Charles, an IP describing itself as '24/7' or 'unlimited' is simply
-> stating that a user can connect at any time, day or night, without
-> incuring telephone charges.
-
-Precisely. My water supply is 24/7, but I use it less than one hour a day.
-
-> I notice that RM (Research Machines) is selling software to schools
-> which allows students to connect to the school network from home. If
-
-I wonder how many schools actually use leased lines?
Quite a few where they have lots of students needing access at the same
time. From what I have heard the extra bits RM put on top of NT4 makes
things even worse. Not uncommon for leased lines, however RM still expect
the schools to use a proxy at RM. Class of 30 going to same Flash bloated
site one heavy link usage.
-OTOH, ISTR The Linux ISDN documentation explaining how to do this.
More schools should be using boxes like Linux to be the local web proxy.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 111053,cba995de6e991641 X-Google-Attributes: gid111053,public X-Google-Thread: 10572e,cba995de6e991641 X-Google-Attributes: gid10572e,public X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,cba995de6e991641 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public From: paul$@pcserv.demon.co.uk (Paul Carpenter) Subject: Re: Freeserve time, Home highway & linux Date: 2000/07/01 Message-ID: <20000701.2047.177658snz@pcserv.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 641312410 X-Mail2News-Path: news.demon.net!pcserv.demon.co.uk References: <slrn8lcueu.mv0.charlesb@local-gateway.summerfieldtechnology.co.uk> <slrn8ld1hl.8o6.chris@dougal.etcp.co.uk> <d7c.39590c2a.59c54@scgf> <slrn8li6rg.1dp.tmb@cow.tm-jabarton.freeserve.co.uk> <slrn8lpg36.67q.charlesb@local-gateway.summerfieldtechnology.co.uk> <307.395ce347.d463d@scgf> <ujkkj8.17.ln@sleipnir.webthing.com> X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 962486792 mail2news:5586 mail2news mail2news.demon.co.uk Organization: PC Services Reply-To: paul@pcserv.demon.co.uk Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,freeserve.help.isdn,freeserve.help.unix X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net