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From: Earl J. Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 6:04 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [cc] Dial UP, ISDN, Satellite,....better access
> 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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