At 04:18 PM 10/4/00 -0500, Marco Huerta wrote:
>Hi Earl:
>
>Thanks for your advice. Answering your questions, i am
>planning to
>offer in addtion a connecting to internet:
>Gaming for LAN (not for Internet).
>About videoconferencing, would be a service not common and
>then, is
>not a important factor to make a decision.
>
>Marco H.
Hi Marco,
OK. The next consideration is what you are attempting
to sell to customers (which goes hand in hand with who you
see as your customer base). Are you primarily servicing
people who live in your area (and will hopefully be repeat
customers), or to people just passing through the area
(vacationers, business people), or plenty of both?
Why? If you are selling to local residents that you
hope to keep as regulars, you need to decide what level of
performance will keep them coming to you, rather than using
a computer at home (or elsewhere) instead.
_One_ way to make your cybercafe's access more
attractive is to offer a higher speed connection than what
is available at home. However, that usually comes into play
(pardon the pun) more for game players who want faster
internet gaming.
If you are primarily targeting transients, they will
probably just be happy to have somewhere they can go to
check their e-mail, etc. High speed is not nearly as much
of an issue in that situation.
Without knowing what the prices are in your locale, I
imagine that an ISDN router (using either one 128 Kbps
[2B+1D channel], or two such connections) for your LAN would
be sufficient for your stated size and services. The
DirecPC approach might be fine as well, but make sure you
have a handle on their pricing and whatever limits on
Megabytes/month transferred might be. They used to have
some limits (with charges for extra Mb transferred), but I
do not know if that is still the case.
Best of luck,
Earl
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