Path: sys6626!bison!draco!jim
From: jim@draco.bison.mb.ca (Jim Jaworski)
Newsgroups: man.freenet
Subject: Re: Other Freenets
Message-ID: <1994Apr17.042254.24273@draco.bison.mb.ca>
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 1994 04:22:54 GMT
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Titanium Knight (titan@sys6626.bison.mb.ca) wrote in man.freenet:
: rahardj@cc.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo) writes:
: > jim@draco.bison.mb.ca (Jim Jaworski) writes:
: > 
: > >: People will use BlueSky resources as a gateway only (e.g. to connect to
: > >: MUDs, IRC, etc. and stay there for hours :-)   )
: > 
: > >People will be limited to 60 minutes/day and no more, so nobody will be 
: > >able to hog the modem resources.  
: > 
: > Sounds good. Just make sure your have enough resource.

:  To give everyone an opportunity to use the system, all
: users will be subject to a limit of, say, one hour, on their Free-Net
: session. However, there is no limit on the number of sessions that a
: Free-Net user can have on any given day.

: Doesen't look like it'll be an hour a day.  I doubt that would be enough 
: time for most people, especially once they get into reading Usenet news, 
: posting, looking around, and doing one million other neat things.  :-)

I saw a short while back either in man.freenet or in one of the computer 
papers that the Winnipeg Freenet will start with something like 15 async. 
modems -- that works out to exactly 3 hundred and 60 people EACH day -- 
not enough if this is going to be a general resource for many, many 
Winnipeggers.  The Freenet committee should target a user base (at start 
of over 1000).

So to do the calculation of how many async. modems will be required:

1000 potential users / 24 hours in each day = 42 async. modems.

Now since the current *standard* async. speed is 14.4 Kbps and since 
these cost about $200 each the cost for 42 of these little suckers will 
be in the neighborhood of:

$200 x 42 = $8400.00 + PST + GST.  Maybe one of the major modem 
manufacturers could give a discount on this purchase as they are known to 
do this for BBS sysops.

On the other hand, if *each* user is limited to 45 minutes / day the 
amount of modems (initially) will be slightly lower (1/3 less).

Just my ever shrinking $0.02 worth.


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Jim Jaworski                                                         
Winnipeg MB Canada                            Internet: jim@draco.bison.mb.ca
TEAM OS/2                                                            
