While there may be some who consider it to be a silly question, I don't. Before the internet took off, I ran a bulliten board. There were two types of bulliten boards that you could set up (though there were dozens of BBS software packages) Either an always on, or a scheduled BBS. Scheduled BBS's were really designed for businesses. If you had a phone line coming into your business, that was otherwise only used during the work day, setting up a BBS on that line, scheduled for after hours, would allow you to provide support, and allow your customers to send messages to each other.
The problem with that idea is the same one you will run into. You are setting up a service that you hope people will subscribe to, which is unlikely to be significantly different from services that other people are setting up. The only thin that will differentiate it is that as long as you are on a dialup connection, you are going to be less available than most of the other servers. This may not be a problem for you. You may just want to set up a Jabber service that you and your friends at school will use. It only needs to be up after school till 10 pm, then saturday and sunday from noon till 11 pm. If so, no problem, continue to use the dialup connection. If you consider this to be a problem, then yes, a CableModem connection is one option for improving your situation. Another would be a DSL line if it is available. Other options include Sattelite based connections, or dedicated direct connections to an ISP. Asside from the advantage of always on connectivity, the other advantage would be in bandwidth. Any of these options should give you at least 5 times the bandwidth of a single 56k dialup connection. Hope this helps. -Rusty On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 03:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If I wanted to configure a Jabber server do you think having a cable modem > would be a good place to start if I do not have one? I have a 56K modem right > now but I figure if I have a cable modem I can have a 24hour connection. I > hope this is not a silly question and if it is I apologize. _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
