Hello All,
I am looking at setting up a dial-in machine to have a permanent connection
to the net so that family and friends can have accounts with me rather than
with seperate ISP's and therefore share the costs.
It is intended that all normal services (e-mail, ftp, web browsing,
newsgroups etc) will be available.
Thanks to the help I received previously, I understand that the data is
downloaded via my high speed link and then distributed to the dial in user
who requested it meaning that the high speed link is idle for much of the
time while the requesting user reads the information thusly provided.
It also seems apparent that someone who never waits for a page to finish
loading in their browser before clicking the next link will be more of a
bandwidth hog than others.
Having said that, is there some rough guide to calculating the mimimum
bandwidth required to support a given number of users with 56K connections
to my machine ?
eg. 0 - xx users : 64K
(xx + 1) - yy users : 128K
(yy + 1) - zz users : 256K
etc...
Also I think it is correct that I can download the newsgroups to my own
machine and therefore newsgroup reading, whilst requiring a dial in line
and processing and disc access time, does not use the band width except for
when I download the information for redistribution ???
I understand that it is no great drain to forward e-mail as it is received
from the user and ftp to remote sites via my machine works similarly to web
browsing in that the file is downloaded to my machine first and then
distributed to the user. Is this also correct ?
Is there anything I have forgotten to ask (or don't know to ask) ?
Thank you all very much for your help.
Ivan.
