Balwinder Singh Dheeman rearranged electrons thusly:
> I am a new HAM, Linux user from India, I have read all the requisite
> HOWTO's; I still am unable to figure out that how do I connect and, or
> linkup my server to a 2 way satellite, from a ground station?
There's only one HAM on this list, afaik - RagOO / VU2RGU. You could check
with him ;)
> I wish to run and, or render free message board, e-mail, news, ftp and other
> services for students, researchers, learners and even all humankind. I
> - What is the exact equipment required to do this?
1. A fairly fat pipe to the net (leased line or DSL)
> - Where from I get all this?
One of the corporate providers (VSNL / BPLNet / Dishnet etc). Or you could
*try* contacting NICNET or someone about this as you are an NGO.
> - Is there someone who can supply me some second hand, but good and
> working equipment for the above said purpose?
Contact one of the corporates - lots of them have a policy of donating junked
workstations (usually 486 / early pentium boxes).
> - How much bandwidth can we achieve in this way?
> - Who can and, or will provide me a free gateway to Internet?
Again - VSNL, one of the private ISPs etc.
I suggest you get back to the old system - run a BBS with a UUCP link to send
out mails somewhere :)
If you want to run news servers, you'd still have to get a feed from an
upstream news provider (and that can come _costly_ - newsgroups will account
for several GB of transfer daily).
Besides that, the more services you offer, the more security-paranoid you'll
have to become - or your box will become a target for hackers / will be
misused by hackers. (one of the largest such services - m-net.arbornet.org -
got hacked some months back, went offline for more than two months)
All this will also cost a _lot_ of money, if I haven't mentioned it earlier ;)
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