Generally speaking, most kids at home have more bandwidth to play with then they do at school. The average school might have a T1. Some might have a couple. Most of the schools I've dealt with only have a 256, 512, or 768k frame-relay connection. The ones that have a T1 to play with barely touch it. I've gotten over 2Mb/sec out of my cable modem here in a podunk corner of Kansas. I got even better from SWB DSL before I moved. Dialup is on the decline for the most part. DSL/Cable is on the rise. That at least holds true to parents with kids or reasonably saavy college kids. The only people I've found to be buying dialups are people who can't afford cable/dsl at the moment, are beginners and they don't think they need the glory of something faster, or they realize that all they'll do is send email and view a few webpages. Most everyone else (that can get it) goes for something with a little more umph. The University I currently work for only has 2 T1s. We got the 2nd in December. This summer we'll go to 6 I-MUX. That's my take on the situation. Cheers, Justin FWIW, the number of port 111 probes I've logged have more the quadrupled since mid May. On 6/12/01 11:10 AM sarnoldat_private said... >On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 10:26:58AM -0500, gene.g.beairdat_private >wrote: >> School's out! :-( > >Eh? Is this the collective experience of others? I would have thought >the exact opposite, what with high-bandwidth connections at most schools >but not at home. > >Respond to me privately, I'll summarize. > >[...] >> -----Original Message----- >> From: JObert [mailto:JObertat_private] >[...] >> Since February, I've been receiving tcp port scans for the default sub7 >> port >> (27374) at a rate of approximately 3-4 per day. Starting on June 8th to >> present, I've been receiving them at 9 times that rate. -- Justin Shore, ES-SS ES-SSR Pittsburg State University Network & Systems Manager Kelce 157Q Office of Information Systems Pittsburg, KS 66762 Voice: (620) 235-4606 Fax: (620) 235-4545 http://www.pittstate.edu/ois/ Warning: This message has been quadruple Rot13'ed for your protection.
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