[olug] RAS for dial-up ISP question

[Charles Bird]

> You mean like these guys? 
>  
> 
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=cheap+dial+up+isp 
>  
 
lol...kinda I guess. However I'm not gonna make them use 
software to gain access to dial-up.Most of the "free" 
companys have hella pop-ups/banners. I know aol is like 
putting a whole other OS within an OS(crappy one too!) 
I think I've seen RAM usage up by 40MB before. 
I want to provide a place for poor people to come to and 
experience IT, learn if they want. I will enable them to 
get a chance to get almost as far as they want in thier 
knowledge. I will be using Linux of course. 
We are making the charter right now, and grant proposals. 
We will get between 20k and 50k. 
My vision is when a customer dials in with this non-profit 
org, they will be spending money on bandwidth and the 
people that I'm teaching to use linux.  
I will not turn anyone down, never. Well unless its a 
scitzo stinky dude that just comes in to surf for porn or 
causes major disruptions. 
To the empoverished kids that I see I will try to give 
them a machine(old AMD maybe with 256MB RAM) with modem 
and Linux distro as well as give them a free dial-up acct. 
until they quit participating in the org. 
I agree with the large customer base thing, I think the 
ratio per line is abou 1/8..I'd like to do 1/6 or better. 
So i guess now that I think about it i could perhaps do 
the (2) T-1 lines and meet my goals. 
I'll be making an announcement when the ball really gets 
rolling, I may be looking for some volunteers in the next 
few months. 
 
 
 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Phil Brutsche <phil at brutsche.us> 
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 02:16:00 -0600 
To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org> 
Subject: Re: [olug] RAS for dial-up ISP question 
 
> Charles Bird wrote: 
> > Damn, Damn, and damn...thats what i kinda thought. If 
i could offer a 
> > resonable rate for people then I'd get the t-1s. I'd 
have to charge 
> > DSL prices just to pay for the lines. 
>  
> Or you could expand your "customer" base.  Given a full 
24-channel T1  
> you can support quite a bit of subscribers. 
>  
> > I'd like to charge 12.50 for basic super low profit 
dial-up and use 
> > any extra for funding for the non-profit org. and do 
some good to the 
> > poor. 
>  
> You mean like these guys? 
>  
> 
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=cheap+dial+up+isp 
>  
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>  
> Phil Brutsche 
> phil at brutsche.us 
>  
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