[9540] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Internet in a box
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Galloway)
Sun Jan 9 17:33:45 1994
From: John Galloway <jrg@rahul.net>
To: Paul.Robinson@f417.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Paul Robinson)
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 14:27:57 -0800 (PST)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <dad_9401090149@blkcat.fidonet.org> from "Paul Robinson" at Jan 9, 94 00:04:34 am
Reply-To: jrg@galloway.sj.ca.us
>
> I'd like to make the following suggestion; I think the next step in
> the issue of "Internet in a box" is the ability to allow BBSs to use
> FTP so as to increase the number of files available while not storing
> them locally.
>
> One way might include the equivalent of having a background process
> that does a gopher or FTP request for a file, downloads it into a
> temporary area, then allows the user calling to download it from the
> BBS he called into.
>
> Note: 'Asymetric routing' is when the packets you get do not travel
> the same way as the packets you are sending, e.g. phone line uplink,
> cable-tv downlink. On one of these, you could put 200 simultaneous
> customers and give them each their own 56K connection.
1) Hybrid something, in the SF Bay Area is already doing this sort
of asymetric routing for their cable/POTS setups. They (last time I
asked) were only doing telecomuter<->company networks but were working
on Internet access as well.
2) Once the end user has this (or any other IP) capability what purpose
does the BBS serve?
-jrg
