[HECnet] VCF East

What a great idea! How about it Dave? -Steve Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 24, 2015, at 06:30, Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman- <system at TMESIS.COM> wrote: > > Steve Davidson <steve at davidson.net> writes: > >> >> >>> On 04/23/2015 09:34 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: >>>> On 2015-04-24 03:21, Sampsa Laine wrote: >>>>> On 24 Apr 2015, at 02:17, Steve Davidson <steve at davidson.net> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> VAXstation 4000/60 >>>>> DEChub-90 backplane with a DECserver-90TL and a 16-port DEChub >>>>> VT320 >>>>> a gateway (actually bridge) machine to connect to HECnet only the >>>>> link was pathetic >>>> >>>> >>>> Next year let me know, I've got a bridge sitting on a gigabit pipe >>>> doing nothing. >>> >>> I don't think that will help, unless that pipe happens to have one end >>> somewhere on the US east coast I suspect... >>> >>> Update itself sits on even more bandwidth. Not helping either... >>> >>> Johnny >> The issues were local to the VCF East site. Everyone had issues with >> it. Dave is working this one for next year. The other end is my site >> with plenty of bandwidth and even more coming. It will be a 100 megs >> down / 40 megs up shortly. > > I have other passions outside of computing too. One is music. For more > than a decade, I've been hosting the Aural Moon Progressive Rock internet > radio site and doing many/most of the technical efforts to keep it going. > My title there is: Janitorial Services and Restroom Supplies; as I keep > it all neat and tidy, and free of the script kiddies and forum SPAMmers. > > Anyway, a Philadelphia FM DJ has a show which Aural Moon rebroadcasts on > Saturday evenings and replays on Tuesday. He has also, as an Aural Moon > exclusive, done live concert feeds. For this, I've contacted the local > cable internet providers and have had cable internet drops installed for > the duration of these events -- typically, weekends. With a little bit > of preparation, I've had sufficient bandwidth via these carriers for the > up-feed to Aural Moon. The installation and fee for the last three-day > event's internet was less then $100!!! I have a 4U portable rack with a > Cisco router, APC UPS and sundry other bits I've needed for doing remote > site live gigs. Think about it! > > I don't know who is providing internet to InfoAge but I've found it to > be slow and unreliable; at least, the wireless on the campus seems to > be. > > -- > VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG > > I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.