[74] in resnet
Continental Cablevision offers Internet hookup
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Harrington)
Wed Aug 25 13:25:29 1993
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1993 13:22:23 -0400
From: jh@flolab.mit.edu (Joe Harrington)
To: resnet@MIT.EDU
Cc: jh@MIT.EDU, sanj@MIT.EDU, nmd@molly.harvard.edu, maren@MIT.EDU,
Reply-To: jh@MIT.EDU
In the Globe today (front page and p. 29), Continental Cablevision
said they were going to offer Internet hookups. I spoke with a
representative and here is some of the scoop:
$70-$100/month, expecting to come down in price.
Available in January.
You get a modem in your house and (he thought) one IP address.
The article mentionned 10Mbit/sec; the rep will confirm this. He did
assure me that it was "a heck of a lot faster" than the 56kb SLIP line
I now have.
The rep will confirm that you can set up a gateway/router arrangement
connected to your one IP address at no extra charge.
They will do their own service areas (Cambridge, Arlington) and are
talking to Warner Cable and others to do surrounding towns.
How does this affect the Resnet plan? I'll bet it's no more expensive
than frame relay service from NET. And they provide and service the
modem. Would a house be able to set up a machine as a gateway to
their existing LAN, continuing to use the MIT.EDU names and addresses
on the LAN? It would let the house effectively have on-campus
performance, allowing use of Athena system packs (if it's reliable)
and doing high-bandwidth things like image work on MIT machines from
home.
--jh--
