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- From: tp@mccall.com (Terry Poot)
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 15:59:17 EDT
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- In article <19AUG199202303735@spades.aces.com>, gavron@spades.aces.com (Ehud
- Gavron 602-570-2000 x. 2546) writes:
- >Find a local university which is willing to let you hook up to their
- >network. You'll find that the cost is generally in the same range as
- >the phone line you'd tie up for SLIP over a year.
-
- Nope. There's only one local university, and to connect to them, I have to join
- MIDnet for $xx,xxxx per year (somewhere around 50k, I think). That doesn't
- include the phone line, just the right to connect. That's a condition of their
- own connection to MIDnet. I suspect most universities connected to NSFnet
- regional networks have similar restrictions.
-
- >Alternately you could
- >get higher bandwidths (56kbps) at <$1K/month from various providers including
- >Alternet and US Sprint.
-
- Try 5-10K/month, if you don't happen to live near a POP for one of those
- providers, since you have to get a leased line to the nearest POP.
-
- >#Also, SLIP doesn't provide for periodic calling and shutting down the
- >#line when all the traffic is done.
- >
- > I call this a feature.
-
- Me too, unless I have to pay line charges, but it drives the price up higher
- than a uucp link to the same site.
-
- >Any time I ping, a packet goes through.
- > I've heard of people who set up unix cslip to autodial on the
- > first packet if the link is down.
-
- How do they get it to hang up when the line's been idle for a while? And does
- that first packet actually get through, considering the timeouts while the
- phone's being dialed? Maybe you can make it work, but it's well beyond what SLIP
- was designed to do.
-
- --tp
-