Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 00:24:55 GMT From: "Chris McNett" <chrismcnett@hotmail.com> To: johnsaleeby@hotmail.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: accessing the web Message-ID: <20000731002455.74019.qmail@hotmail.com>
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You can get a direct T1 connection to the backbone through UUNET. However, if you are this much of a newbie, you should either get some experience or hire a sysadmin before starting an ISP. Any free ISP will only offer 56k connections, so you should contact a well-known ISP like UUNet. You can use FreeBSD and put on a lot of modems (many companies offer ways to do this) and contact your phone company for digital connections. You'd need a T1 or T3 router and a network. It's going to cost a lot of money, however, it would be affordable over 200 or 300 people. Just contact UUNet or some other big business ISP and they can tell you everything you need and help you set things up. However, you'd probably pay as much as any other pay ISP (and the pay ISP would be very reliable), and you really should probably just all use the more reliable pay ones. You get what you pay for. If you can't afford $20 a month, then you probably shouldn't attempt to set up your own ISP until you have significantly more experience. >From: "john saleeby" <johnsaleeby@hotmail.com> >To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: accessing the web >Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 11:11:21 CDT > >Talk about a Newbie!(That's me) I live in a small town with few ISPs the >only free ISP is not reliable( and we could loose it anytime). What I >really >want to do is establish a small local ISP (200-300) users and split the >operating costs among the users. NOW- is BSD (part of)the way to do this? >What more than the server(BSD) do we need to connect to the net? Phone >line(?) or what? OR DO WE STILL NEED TO HAVE AN ISP TO CONNECT TO, OR CAN >WE >GO DIRECT TO THE WEB????(IF YES< HOW) Told you we >were Newbies (but we're sincere) > >If I'm barking up the wrong tree please let me know - but if it can be done >point me in the right direction. > >Thank you, >John >________________________________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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