[log in to unmask] (Clayton Hines) writes:
> Just for all to know, last I counted (Friday, 24 Feb, 95), the Miami
> University Bookstore has sold 227 add-on, 14.4 kbps modems since 18 Aug,
> 94.  That's
> about 230 in six months, or about 40 per month.  Just add-ons.  And just
> from the Shriver bookstore.
>
> And just for all to compare, there is currently a total of 64 modems in the
> University Mainframe modem pool.
>
> And just to save you a little calculation:
> 227 > 64
> 64/227 = 0.2819383259912 < 1/3
>
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Before we consider how many modems are available, I'm much more concerned with
the slow connections I get at 14.4... I hardly get 7500 bps on downloads
sometimes (much of the time recently).  I haven't changed my set up.  If we add
more users connected at the same time, then I hate to imagine the lag.
 
Not to mention that someone has posted earlier that we have maxed out the
number of modems per bank.  I wonder if there is any talk of adding more
banks...
 
Of course, if we had another general access platform, say a Unix platform, we
could help the lag issue by dividing the user base up onto more machines,
couldn't we?  (Sorry.  I could not resist.)
 
Aaron
 
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