[378] in Resnet-Forum
Re: High-speed network access from off campus
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leo D. Geoffrion)
Wed Oct 12 10:09:12 1994
From: ldg@skidmore.EDU (Leo D. Geoffrion)
To: reese@staff.circ.gwu.edu
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 94 9:58:03 EDT
Cc: resnet-forum@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <E0F7A27F8D@staff.circ.gwu.edu>; from "Brad Reese" at Oct 12, 94 9:30 am
Brad Reese writes:
>
> At the George Washington University only about 1/5 of our total student body
> lives in residence halls. We would like to provide the means for high-speed
> access to our LANs for the rest of the students. Are any other campuses
> doing this? How?
>
For Mac's we've had good success with Apple Remote Access using 14.4
modems feeding to a Shiva server (there are now 3 or 4 companies
offering ARA servers).
Installation is very simple -- feasible for user installation
Speed is acceptable, Even Mosaic is OK if you turn off
auto-loading of images.
Compatibility is excellent with all MacTCP apps running in the
same (except for speed) manner as on-campus connections.
ARA offers reasonable password security and logging to assure that
the whole world does not start using your system, although
it does not integrate with other system passwords.
We've been experimenting with the comparable Shiva for PC networking,
but have not achieved similar success.
The installation is not suitable for user installation
The speed is painfully slow for even the simplest network tasks.
Has anyone else gotten this to work decently?
We've managed to get SLIP working, but our particular equipment
(Xyplex terminal servers with optional SLIP services) has lousy
security. Has someone else had better success with security on the
Xyplex terminal servers?
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