[SunRescue] note on living expenses

[Christopher Byrne]

First thing, I actually did list my internet cost. I pay $69 a month for a
1.5 mb full duplex lan connection into the 0C3 that my condo complex shares.
450 Units, about 25% of them use the service. I have seen the full 1.5mb to
the head end of the link, but usually I get about 800k both ways. For that
price I also get 3 static IP's, and no restrictions on service, i.e. I can
run servers no problem.

I have the addtron 802.11b wireless net in my house. The bridge was $200 on
sale, and the adapters are about $100 a pop. They work great, and I can
actually use my laptop as a laptop rather than a portable desktop.

I am seriously considering getting ricochet (it's pretty good coverage here
in the Bay Area) so I can binrg my own internet access into client sites
when I do a gig rather than begging for whatever connection they have handy.
I'm still working past that $79.95 a month thing though. It just seems like
rather a lot to pay for relativley low speed service. Of course it's better
than the $.039 a minute I get charged when I use my cellular modem.

Chris Byrne

-----Original Message-----
From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of Bill Bradford
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 22:43
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] note on living expenses


On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 12:22:22AM -0600, Reagen Ward wrote:
> I SHOULD pay $56/mo to upgrade the work-supplied 160k SDSL to 416k, but
they
> have yet to be up long enough to pay.  I also pay $75/mo for Ricochet
128k.
> Reagen

I would KILL to have Riccochet here in Austin.  Just so I could have
a wireless laptop in the bedroom...

(Anybody know of a better 802.11 source for a PCMCIA adapter, two
 PCI adapters, and a network access point, than the WaveLAN stuff?
 I can understand $100 for PCMCIA or PCI, but the access point, when
 all I need is a bridge to the rest of my network, is kinda pricey..)

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