I don't think ISDN is available there, however, it is too late at this point as they have signed a 1 year contract.
Andy On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Brandon Valentine <[email protected]> wrote: > It's also worth asking, particularly since it came up recently on the list, > do you think their location is eligible for ISDN service? Given the > extremely high latency of Satellite I think I'd take a bonded ISDN BRI over > it anyday . Probably worth looking into. > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Brandon Valentine > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> While I don't personally use it (DD-WRT fits my needs), I've heard good >> things about Smoothwall: >> http://www.smoothwall.org/ >> It's a bootable Linux distro that can be run on old hardware and includes >> things like Squid for HTTP caching and RRDtool to graph network usage. It >> has a snazzy web interface. As with anything that amounts of Linux running >> on an old PC I wouldn't call it novice-proof or maintenance free, but it >> should be a bit less of a headache than, say, actually installing a >> full-blown Linux instance. And if you setup Dynamic DNS with it you should >> be able to SSH or HTTP in to make most changes without going on site. >> >> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Andrew Farnsworth <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> I have a friend on Satellite internet (it's that or dialup) and they >>> have a hard cap on the amount of data you can download and upload via >>> the system. Does anyone know of a system that we can put in place >>> which will allow her to monitor and control usage of the internet >>> connection on a per-computer or per-person basis. I know I could put >>> something together by dropping a linux box to use as a router in place >>> and I am seriously considering doing this as it will also allow us to >>> put in a transparent proxy and caching DNS server to help reduce >>> bandwidth used. In their first month of usage, they hit the bandwidth >>> limit and there are penalties for doing it more than once. >>> >>> Andy >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Brandon D. Valentine >> http://www.brandonvalentine.com > > > > -- > Brandon D. Valentine > http://www.brandonvalentine.com > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
