Re: shared dial up modem?

[Clark Martin]

At 8:00 AM -0500 1/21/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, if you were web serving (assuming visitors) and
web surfing with several computers at once, wouldn't
this be painfully slow?
 Some routers, eg Asante FR3004C, include a port for
a dialup modem. The
 router shares the one dialup connection among the
networked computers
 > just as it shares a cable or dsl connection.
 >
Yup.  But not as bad as you might think.  With web browsing your 
access is sporadic.  So two users both running web browsers won't 
often be trying to download web pages at the same time.  Now if one 
is downloading a large file it's a different matter.  I used shared 
dialup at my house for several years.  Most of the time it was only 
as slow as a single user accessing  via modem.
--
Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting

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