Conection speeds ...Fw: Help me convince my boss

["Michael Small" <smalliis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What are typical necessary connectivity speeds, say for
3 simultaneous users
5 simultaneous users
10 simultaneous users

to have an acceptable surfing experience?

----- Original Message -----
From: Adam Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org>
To: <klug@klug.armintl.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 1999 5:48 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: Help me convince my boss


>
> > > > up.  This is still more convient than everyone needing their own
phone
> > > line,
> > > > but not good enough.  What can NT/Back Office/Small Business Server
do
> > > that
> >>> Linux in cannot this respect?  He is a very dedicated NT guy (not at
using
> >>> it, just
> >>> at selling it)  (we sell software and support to small businesses), so
I
> >>> need to make this dial up process at least as easy from an end user
stand
> >>> point as it would be under NT.  I have heard of demand dialing, but
don't
> >>> know anything about it or where to start looking.
> >>> The perfect scenario at this point would be:  Workstation request
> >>> information on the net, server dials.  Server detects no localnet to
> >>> internet activity, times out and disconnects automagically.  If the
server
> >>> could do that, with very, very, very little attention once it was
setup and
>
> There is a document in the "Tech Notes" of the KLUG web server on how to
do
> exactly that.  It is called "Demand Dialing",  my system has been doing it
for
> years with great success.  Older kernels use something called "diald" for
> demand dialing,  new kernels can do it with no additional processes
(except
> pppd of course).  Use the new method, as diald has some rather serious
> problems.
>
> >>> could run reliably, I think he would consider using linux.  I also am
faced
> >>> with learning sendmail (or some mail handler) because he would be
using
> >>> exchange if he had NT set up.
>
> Sendmail is not as bad as you think.  At sendmail.org they have
step-by-step
> instructions for setting up diffrent things.  I've used that site with
great
> success,  ther're may also be GUI setup tools at freshmeat,  I recall
vaguely
> seeing a few of these.
>
> >>> I would appreciate ANY little tid bits of advice, hints, urls, or
> >>> anything else you can throw at me.
>
> You have run linuxconf,yes?  this is a very impressive tool.
>
>