[591] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: At What Price Will TCP/IP Connections Gain Wide Market Appeal?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David J. Farber)
Mon Apr 15 19:08:58 1991
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 91 19:03:27 GMT-0500
From: farber@central.cis.upenn.edu (David J. Farber)
To: francis%zaphod@gargoyle.uchicago.edu
Cc: Will@cup.portal.com, com-priv@psi.com
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> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 91 17:44:40 CDT
> From: francis%zaphod@gargoyle.uchicago.edu
> To: Will@cup.portal.com
> Cc: com-priv@psi.com
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> Question, please: we're hearing lots of monthly prices quoted, but I
> was wondering what typical startup costs would be like (say, how much
> for the hardware for an individual network connection).
>
> Also--why would someone in the first category (Unix professionals,
> with net connections at work) want a dial-up connection at home?
> What would be wrong with logging into his work account by modem (aside
> from intense stuff like FTP)?
>
I have a dialin slip connection from my house. When I come home and get
up in the morning I have all my mail waiting and I have the full
environment of my NeXT at both the office and home in a seemless way.
Right now I have 9.6 slip so remotely mounted file systems are
no fun. I would, for one, now want to go back to the different style
of interaction of a dial up terminal. I would like better repose from
remotely mounted stuff so a higher spped line would be better
