Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!ai-lab!churchy.ai.mit.edu!campbell From: campbell@churchy.ai.mit.edu (Paul Campbell) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: Internet at home ? Message-ID: <13648@life.ai.mit.edu> Date: 3 Mar 91 17:41:47 GMT References: <296@nic.cerf.net> Sender: news@ai.mit.edu Distribution: comp Organization: The Internet Lines: 20 Officially, since the university is supplying you with the internet access, their site license is what's involved. Depending on how paranoid your university is, they may or may not let you set up a dial-up system. I have worked with three different Michigan universities on similar projects with varying degrees of freedom. One is so security-paranoid that if they ever found out what their staff was playing with after hours (I'm not even staff, just 'in the know'), they would fire/exspell all involved. One (Usenet feed+ftp's on a low-bandwidth basis) was actually helpful and wanted to know what our results were for their own reference. One was pretty much run by staff who didn't really care what we were doing as long as it did not cause trouble for them. As far as speed problems, forget X windows. It's just too much of a waste on bandwidth, and system resources. It WILL run on 9600 baud links, but it is t too slow to be very useful. This is generally true for all the graphics environments that depend on transmitting graphical (bitmap) information across the network. If it is run from local-materials, it should be fine. Beyond that, as long as you remember that you are running on a 10Kbps line instead of 10,000 Kbps, there are no problems.