Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 21:10:24 -0500 (EST) From: zoonie <zoonie@myhouse.com> To: Wm Brian McCane <root@bmccane.uit.net> Cc: un_x@hotmail.com, isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cable-tel-isp companies Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.971028205415.12633C-100000@nak.myhouse.com> In-Reply-To: <199710281611.KAA21980@bmccane.uit.net>
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i guess that it was a bit thoughtless to say that they were beginners, you are correct in stating that they already run a network brian. you are also correct in stating that good technical people go where the money is but i think that they also have to consider what the BS level is compared to the money. you could offer me a million dollars a year as a salary (obviously it's unrealistic) but if i perceive that i will have to put up with too much crap then you can keep it. it has also been my experiance that finding competent networkers is not easy (i have had to interview a few people at different places and have heard stories about people that have come in for interviews from coworkers). what your cable company is doing is kinda interesting and it sounds like the only drawback is that they won't assign a static IP address....i only know of one cable company in the washington, DC area that is doing internet access and that is in alexandria, virginia. i only know about it because somebody told me. i haven't heard anything about any of the other cable companies doing it but that doesn't mean that they aren't looking into it. at least my local cable company isn't doing anything. i think that the biggest threat here may be bell atlantic and their DSL offerings (but that's not going to be anywhere near 10Mbit) and the power company (they are supposed to be in the internet business now). but how that shakes out still remains to be seen. so, for now i don't think that i would worry to much just yet.... On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, Wm Brian McCane wrote: > > i think that steve hovey is correct in stating that you shouldn't worry. > > good technical people are hard to find and running an ISP is not for > > beginners in the networking field..... > > They are not exactly "beginners". They can do this because they are already > running a network. They are simply piggy-backing InterNet access on their > current system. Also, good technical people tend to go where the money is, > and SBC (the company that owns SWBT, Cellular One, a cable company, ....) > in our area has the money. My local cable company is supposed to come online > with InterNet access in Feb 98. They claim they will be offering 10/1 MBit > connection to the InterNet (Yes, that is 10Mbit in, 1Mbit out). Which means I > can almost host a web site at near T1 speeds through them. The biggest loss > I see so far is that they will only do "DHCP" according to their tech people. > I asked if they would be able to setup reservations in the DHCP manager for > people that wanted a static IP and they started counting their shoelaces. > > brian > > > > On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, Steve Hovey wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Im not worried - the cable company around here messed up their setup > > > pretty badly. > > > > > > On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, steve howe wrote: > > > > > > > i apologize if this isn't exactly the the right forum for this > > > > question, but i didn't know where i'd get a better answer. > > > > i would appreciate any experiences or opinions on how things > > > > will change for small ISPs once (as is happening here) telcos > > > > start providing fiber optic telephone/cable/internet through the > > > > same line as your telephone. > > > > - > > > > maybe such a thing has occured where you live. i'd like to know > > > > how there services are, how expensive they are, if they are > > > > still incapable of some internet functionalies, etc. > > > > - > > > > thanks. please ditto a copy off the list. > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________ > > > > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
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