thnaks vivek. will be setting up the LAN soon. will tell you how it goes. cheers, chetan ----- Original Message ----- From: Vivek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 8:52 PM Subject: Re: [ilug-cal] Need to set up a LAN for an Internet Cafe > Dear Chetan > Yes, Switch helps you to increase the speed as it does not divide your > bandwidth among the clients but gives equal maximum bandwidth to all the > clients. But it is a costly affair. If you install squid proxy with 2 GB cache > or more and you just sit for an hour to click all the popular sites. Perhaps > your cyber cafe customers won't know even whether they are using dialup > connection or ISDN. Means it is so fast as far as proxy services are > concerned. I have also tested MS-Proxy and Winproxy and proxy4u with many > other variations (approx 13) but none of them can come closer to squid. > ISP services depends on the city. > In Lucknow I found Satyam was very good in comparison to VSNL > In delhi I found VSNL was far better than Satyam. > > So inquire in your area about the ISP only that can give you real picture. Try > some short period connections from both of them and you can note how much time > they take for connectivity and what data transfer rate they provide or they > have enough telephone junctions to handle large no. of requests etc. > > Regards, > Vivek > > > Chetan Arora wrote: > > > Thanks for your help Vivek. I also needed to know > > > > 1. much of a difference it makes to network traffic speed if i use a LAN > > switch instead of a hub > > 2. if satyam is a better choice than VSNL as an ISP. > > > > regards, > > chetan > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Vivek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 10:47 AM > > Subject: Re: [ilug-cal] Need to set up a LAN for an Internet Cafe > > > > > Dear Chetan, > > > > > > I am sorry to say but I could not get the concept. I mean what do you > > > need to > > > know about setting up a cyber cafe. What I did to setup cyber cafes in > > > Lucknow > > > & Delhi is given below: > > > > > > Case: > > > One Linux Server - P III with 64 MB RAM & 10 GB HDD > > > Ten Windows 98 Clients - @233 MHz or @350 MHz with 64 MB RAM & 4.3 GB > > > HDD > > > Dialup Modem & Connectivity - Dlink 56.7 KBPS & Satyam Unlimited > > > Internet > > > Connection > > > > > > Setup: > > > Installed Red Hat Linux 6.2 in custom mode with all the available > > > packages. > > > Made the Linux Machine DNS Server and brough all the clients under the > > > domain. > > > Configured wvdial for dialup connectivity. > > > Configured SQUID with 4 GB Cache in transparent proxy mode. > > > Setup the default gateway on clients to the Linux Machine. > > > That's all. > > > > > > Now tell if you need the complete step by step configuration of wvdial & > > > squid > > > also. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Vivek > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Indranil Das Gupta wrote: > > > > > > > hi, > > > > > > > > --- Chetan Arora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > My basic requirement is to set up a LAN with 4-5 > > > > > clients for the purpose of an Internet Cafe. > > > > > > > > Thought as much :) > > > > > > > > > also do u think its a good idea to have linux > > > > > installed as OS on the client machines also. > > > > > > > > No! A cybercafe is a place where general users come > > > > for the utility. Encountering an unfamiliar UI as well > > > > as Netscape widgets, no matter how much better, will > > > > work against the users' comfort. People accept that > > > > Windows will crash, but god forbid if your X server > > > > crashes... it will be entirely your fault :-P > > > > > > > > Besides, in cybercafes, the tendency is to use > > > > el-cheapo h/w for the clients, this opens up the > > > > possibility of h/w incompatible w.r.t linux. > > > > > > > > > are there linux versions of popular internet > > > > > software like yahoo msngr, msn > > > > > msngr etc ?? > > > > > > > > Yahoo! yes, AIM yes, ICQ yes! but MSN... i really > > > > don't know... > > > > > > > > > also, for my own interest i wanted to know some good > > > > > links/books on Linux Security...not just an overview > > > > > but indepth information. > > > > > > > > The stuff available from LDP is anything but "just" > > > > overviews... Trust me :-) > > > > > > > > Check out Linux Administrator's Security Guide (LASG) > > > > from http://www.seifried.org/lasg/ Its in process of > > > > being re-written by the author. > > > > > > > > O'Reilly has a large number of books on Sysadmin and > > > > Security... check out their catalog... You can write > > > > to Mrs. Aban Desai of Millennium Bookshop (Calcutta > > > > Distributors of O'Reilly) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > requesting for the latest catalog. > > > > > > > > hth, > > > > --indra. > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > > Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! > > Messenger > > > > http://im.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > -- > > > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body > > > > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > > > > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html > > > > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body > > > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > > > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body > > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. 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