Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mstar!mstar.morningstar.com!bob From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXT and stay at home networking Message-ID: Date: 5 Nov 90 18:52:33 GMT References: <1374@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> <1990Nov3.215736.518@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Sender: usenet@MorningStar.COM (USENET Administrator) Reply-To: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) Distribution: na Organization: Morning Star Technologies Lines: 19 In-Reply-To: vehaag@crocus.uwaterloo.ca's message of 3 Nov 90 21:57:36 GMT In article <1990Nov3.215736.518@watdragon.waterloo.edu> vehaag@crocus.uwaterloo.ca (Viktor Haag) writes: ...only big institutions that can demonstrate a need for a direct connection can connect directly, and mostly this turns out to be Universities ... the hardware needed to ensure that you could keep up to speed with the transmission rates of the 'spinal cord' would be difficult to obtain and prohibitive in cost. There are several vendors in the business of selling IP connectivity. Their service rates can turn out to be quite reasonable, even for a small site. The hardware required can be anything you feel you need, beginning with a 9600bps dialup SLIP or PPP connection and progressing through T1 or better, if you want to pay for it. You'll have the same services as your University brethren, just slower. Talk to info@psi.com about PSInet, info@uunet.uu.net about AlterNet, or postmaster@nic.cerf.net about CERFnet. There may be others that I can't name off the top of my head. Connectivity isn't as elitist, nor the picture as bleak, as you suggest.