Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!van-bc!sl
From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Dial up access to Internet facilities
Message-ID: <432@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 25 May 90 23:25:56 GMT
References: <2944@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> <9005240215.AA01426@psi.com> <1990May25.163528.14300@ameristar>
Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Organization: Wimsey Associates
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In article <1990May25.163528.14300@ameristar> rick@ameristar (Rick Spanbauer) writes:
>In article <9005240215.AA01426@psi.com> schoff@PSI.COM ("Martin Lee Schoffstall") writes:
}	The plight of many small technical businesses is that we just cannot 
}	justify spending $30K+ for access into the Internet for the occasional 
}	FTP/smtp transfer.  Were access fees brought inline with the level of 
}	service offered, eg $2K-5K/yr for dialup SLIP is reasonable, surely PSI 
}	and other regionals would see their business pick up substantially.  

van-bc has a dialup SLIP link (9600 bps) into BCNet and it works quite well. 
It's low cost, but effective for an NNTP news feed, mail and the occasion FTP.

We have configured the modems (T2500's in V.32 mode) to auto-dial our private 
phone number on DTR. Every ten minutes we run a script which tests if the link 
is alive. If not we turn it off and on again. This drops the line and redials 
it. 

Works fairly reliably, and the cost is low. Now that we have it we couldn't
do without it.

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Stuart.Lynne@wimsey.bc.ca ubc-cs!van-bc!sl 604-937-7532(voice) 604-939-4768(fax)