[lug] High Speed Access

[Brian Ketelsen]

Do they handle static IP's and multiple computers without resorting to IP
Masq?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Calvin Dodge" <caldodge at fpcc.net>
To: <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: [lug] High Speed Access



>
> My parents in Lakewood have had AT&T (formerly @Home) for about 17 months.
It
> works pretty well _most_ of the time, and we've seen peak download speeds
of
> 250 KBps (yes, that's BYTES).  We can't do anything about the occasional
> connectivity outages, but I've set up their Linux box (the usual IP
> masquerader) to relay email from their Windows computers, so we don't have
to
> worry about AT&T's occasional SMTP server problems.
>
> The biggest limitation on that setup is the ever-popular upload speed
limit of
> 128 Kbps (bits), but that doesn't affect them too much, since the bulk of
their
> traffic is headed inward.
>