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- From: jkay@ragtime.vnet.net (John Kelly)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Setting up an Amiga BBS on the Internet
- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 96 16:09:37
- Organization: Ragtime East
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- stokesj@EMH5.GORDON.ARMY.MIL (John Stokes) writes:
-
- > I'm trying to help a friend get modern. He is running an AmiExpress BBS and
- > want to hook it up to the Internet. I'm told it involves using AmiTCP and
- > TelSer or Telnetd.
-
- Using the registered version of Telser, you can add unlimited access nodes
- via the Internet to your BBS, plus the AUTHOR is on IRC almost every night,
- so you get excellent support.
-
- > 1. What additional hardware is needed?
-
- How many nodes do you WANT to put on the Net? Sending TEXT over a modem
- in a BBS setting (the menus) takes almost no bandwidth at all; I run 2
- Internet BBS nodes through a single 28.8
-
- > a. CSU/DSU?
- >
- > b. Router?
-
- Skip that crap .. get ISDN if you are truly serious about bandwidth.
-
- > c. Ethernet card (A2065)?
-
- If your ISDN TA needs one, sure. Some TA's need only a serial card.
-
- > 2. ISP or other special provider?
- >
- > a. A local ISP only offers dialup for clients. Is this the norm?
-
- No .. most offer "dedicated" dial-up too .. where a modem is exclusively
- held for you, at the POP, or alternately, "Unlimited" dial-up access,
- where you pay a flat-fee and can stay online for as long as you want.
-
- > b. Is there any alternatives to a leased line from the local TelCo?
-
- You don't need one.
-
- > c. What are normal fees to connect a host on the net?
-
- I pay $50US/month for unlimited 28.8 Static IP'd access, and I'm told that
- this figure is "above average"
-
- > 3. Current Amiga hosts on the net?
- >
- > a. BBS's in particular.
-
- HotCity.com (Cnet)
- Ragtime.com (Xenolink)
- tnz.xs4all.nl (Xenolink)
-
- .. and others .. there's a list of them out there someplace
-
- If you use Inet-225 for your IP stack, instead of AmiTCP, you get a "real"
- telnetd, whatever the fuck THAT means (Inet-225 users like to boast)
-
- Otherwise, all the Amiga BBSs on the Net that work WELL, use Telser.
-
- The most important thing to consider when setting up an INternet BBS using
- and Amiga is "how GOOD is your ISP?" .. you NEED for them to have a fast,
- smooth, consistent link to the Net. This is VERY important.
-
- If it doesn't, your users will simply say "this bites" and never log in again.
-
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