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Xref: sserve comp.sys.powerpc:34107 comp.sys.intel:31532 comp.unix.bsd:16141 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:8157 comp.unix.sys5.r4:9234 comp.unix.misc:16017 comp.os.linux.development:23385 comp.os.linux.misc:35147 comp.os.386bsd.development:3187 comp.os.386bsd.misc:5351 comp.os.misc:3800 Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.intel,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.misc,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk!news.ust.hk!nntp.hk.super.net!news.duke.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!bonkers.taronga.com!peter From: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: X on dial-in Organization: Taronga Park BBS Message-ID: <D3Mut8.EqG@bonkers.taronga.com> References: <3f44s2$jqm@maverick.maverick.tad.eds.com> <D3Fp3y.1EI@park.uvsc.edu> <D3IDK1.B73@bonkers.taronga.com> <3h5rsk$a2t@park.uvsc.edu> Date: Tue, 7 Feb 1995 13:58:19 GMT Lines: 22 In article <3h5rsk$a2t@park.uvsc.edu>, Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> wrote: >Laugh if you want. The ability to participate in meetings is the >*ONLY* thing that is forcing locality on where I work. And that >wants cheap video. I'd say it wants cheap high speed telecommunications. I don't know about you, but the stuff I do in meetings needs a lot more than video. Now if I could just run the company LAN into my spare bedroom and use that for remote X, video, file transfer, and so on I could get away with it. >The only effect of using DOVBS for your data is they will charge >more for DOVBS. And this will serve only to lock out uses for >DOVBS that are more legitimate than squirreling around rate >structures. The phone company is the one squirreling the rate structures. They should just be charging for a data pipe of a given size (with extra charges if you want to fatten it) and not worrying whether you're pumping video or TCP/IP through it.