[HECnet] VCF East

[Dave McGuire]

  I'm in.

           -Dave

On 04/24/2015 09:36 AM, Steve Davidson wrote:
> What a great idea!  How about it Dave?
> 
> -Steve
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> 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.
>>
>> -- 
>> VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker    VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG
>>
>> I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.


-- 
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ/3
New Kensington, PA