>First of all, the UofO network is not available to the public and
>won't ever likely be.
Not directly, but ...
While UO is not in the ISP business, it is at least conceivable that
some individual research project could get involved. It couldn't
happen as a "donation", but it could happen if it could be justified
as part of a research project. This could be "below the radar" as
long as it didn't start having a big impact on bandwidth. Suppose
the link at UO were through a single workstation, and suppose that
workstation were connected at 10Mb ... the 10Mb connection would act
as a bandwidth limiter. Connect that to a typical 100Mb switch in a
department, and it becomes pretty unnoticeable. Moreover this is
something that an individual research project (read: single faculty
or research staff member) could set up. There are lots of ifs,
ands, and buts, but it's not inconceivable.
As an aside ...
>They are using
>a firm called Metricom for their wireless net and from what I hear
>Metricom is going through
>bankruptcy.
Metricom stopped serving Eugene about a year ago. There were my home
connection (I can't get DSL or @home) and I really, really miss the
"always on" connection, not to mention the ability to wander around
the house with a laptop.
--Michal
