Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 18:10:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Vincent Poy <vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM> To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some advice needed. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970411180706.17531G-100000@mail.MCESTATE.COM> In-Reply-To: <19970411140419.02141@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>
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On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > > I always thought RISCom was more of a High Speed Serial Card > > to make a FreeBSD box a router or something. > > well.. out of LINT: > # rc: RISCom/8 multiport card > > so... it does look like they make a multiport card.. but they do also have > a sync card which has a driver in FreeBSD... I kept thinking that was their Sync card and not a multiport card. > > That's good to know, how much did a box like hat cost you? > > well.. a friend found a place that was unloading those 4port AST cards > for $39 each... so I bought a couple of those... the ethernet card in it I > picked up from a swap meet for probably $1.. (it's 16bbit NE2000, you > can't complain)... and I paid something like $19 for the 3.5" floppy... > the CPU on the machine was another swap meet grab... $10 for it... I > already had the MB... Actually, that's pretty good for what you got. > so.. as you can see most of it isn't new stuff... just stuff I had laying > around... I use the floppy to boot because i haven't been able to find > anyone that has an EPROM burner to burn me a couple boot roms... Well, the main point is the stuff works and not if it was new or used since it's not something that you use physically. > so it has only cost me about $110... but if you add in the wiring that I've > done to make handling sll the serial ports nice... your talking about an > additional $80... but that's because I set it up in such a way that I can > easily pull a modem from my terminal server and attach it to another box... > (just unplug on RJ-45 plug and plug it into another slot, it done :) )... Hmmm, for under $200, that still isn't too bad. I thought it would cost way more than that. How much would something new like this cost? > > How much startup capital are we talking about? I can see you're > > in Oregon so competition shouldn't be that bad there. > > well... most of it would go for the inital inet connection and telco > cost.... depending on what my start up size is... it's around $5,000... > and most of that is modems/phone lines or inet connectivity... What does that $5k include? > yeh.. it's not that bad.. and from what I hear it could actually have a > good chance of surviving just because of the number of people that are > signing up... Yep, that's true unless you had to deal with Rain.net or something in Oregon. Cheers, Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____]
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