[53] in resnet
Wow. Activists in the land of Networking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ninjo@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Thu May 27 20:26:14 1993
From: ninjo@Athena.MIT.EDU
To: resnet@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 27 May 93 20:24:21 EDT
Glad to meet you all. I didn't expect such an enthusiastic
crowd, or so many pieces of mail. A lot of good ideas were brought
up. I especially like the dynamic connections. My roomate asked me
about using dynamic connections, he wanted to know the handshake-time
of two computers running SLIP over ISDN. I replied it couldn't be
more than 20 seconds, but it seems like it could be as low as 2
seconds.
The reason for not using a normal analog line, is that with
only 14.4Kbps, graphics programs would find output taking a long time.
I'm not just thinking of nettrek here :) The whole reason for this
venture came about when I was taking 2.01 and found myself having to
bike to school late at night in February to use that course's
CourseWare, which I might add was a nice piece of software.
So the problem seems to be turning the ISDN lines into data
that MITnet can use. And having a seperate computer per line on MIT's
end would be a bit too expensive. So the question I guess thats
obvious is: How is MITnet going to be hitched up to the off campus
living groups? Leased line? And who fronts that bill?
Perhaps I'll just have to whine a lot over at Northeastern and
get a SLIP going over there. But it does just seem so round about to
use an analog line to support serial data between my house and
Northeastern, when what I need is something a little more parallel and
digital to MIT. But then again, its a funny world.
-- NInjo --
