[HECnet] VCF East

[Steve Davidson]

What a great idea!  How about it Dave?

-Steve

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> On Apr 24, 2015, at 06:30, Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman- <system at TMESIS.COM> wrote:
> 
> Steve Davidson <steve at davidson.net> writes:
> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 04/23/2015 09:34 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>>> On 2015-04-24 03:21, Sampsa Laine wrote:
>>>>> On 24 Apr 2015, at 02:17, Steve Davidson <steve at davidson.net> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> VAXstation 4000/60
>>>>> DEChub-90 backplane with a DECserver-90TL and a 16-port DEChub
>>>>> VT320
>>>>> a gateway (actually bridge) machine to connect to HECnet only the 
>>>>> link was pathetic
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Next year let me know, I've got a bridge sitting on a gigabit pipe 
>>>> doing nothing.
>>> 
>>> I don't think that will help, unless that pipe happens to have one end 
>>> somewhere on the US east coast I suspect...
>>> 
>>> Update itself sits on even more bandwidth. Not helping either...
>>> 
>>>    Johnny
>> The issues were local to the VCF East site.  Everyone had issues with 
>> it.  Dave is working this one for next year.  The other end is my site 
>> with plenty of bandwidth and even more coming.  It will be a 100 megs 
>> down / 40 megs up shortly.
> 
> I have other passions outside of computing too.  One is music.  For more
> than a decade, I've been hosting the Aural Moon Progressive Rock internet
> radio site and doing many/most of the technical efforts to keep it going.
> My title there is: Janitorial Services and Restroom Supplies; as I keep 
> it all neat and tidy, and free of the script kiddies and forum SPAMmers.
> 
> Anyway, a Philadelphia FM DJ has a show which Aural Moon rebroadcasts on
> Saturday evenings and replays on Tuesday.  He has also, as an Aural Moon
> exclusive, done live concert feeds.  For this, I've contacted the local
> cable internet providers and have had cable internet drops installed for
> the duration of these events -- typically, weekends.  With a little bit
> of preparation, I've had sufficient bandwidth via these carriers for the
> up-feed to Aural Moon.  The installation and fee for the last three-day
> event's internet was less then $100!!!  I have a 4U portable rack with a
> Cisco router, APC UPS and sundry other bits I've needed for doing remote
> site live gigs.  Think about it!
> 
> I don't know who is providing internet to InfoAge but I've found it to
> be slow and unreliable; at least, the wireless on the campus seems to
> be.
> 
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