From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Feb 6 20:27:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA20278 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 20:27:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from gallup.cia-g.com (root@gallup.cia-g.com [206.206.162.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA20273 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 20:27:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from gallup.cia-g.com (gallup.cia-g.com [206.206.162.10]) by gallup.cia-g.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA10699; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 21:27:26 -0700 Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 21:27:26 -0700 (MST) From: Stephen Fisher To: Joe Greco cc: lqaz@ssd.dawsoncollege.qc.ca, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: info In-Reply-To: <199602062358.RAA18316@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Tue, 6 Feb 1996, Joe Greco wrote: > To paraphrase the answer a friend of mine often gives when asked about > starting an ISP... > > Take about $50,000. Invest in some office space, installation of several > dozen phone lines and good 28.8K modems, a T1 Internet connection, a CSU/DSU > and router, a terminal server, a general purpose UNIX box, an answering > machine, and some advertising, and you have yourself the basic beginnings of > a (very) small ISP business. "Still interested?" :-) $50k is not a small ISP at all. - Steve