What experiences have users out there had running their server over dsl/ads= l=20 qwest says I can do this on the commercial offering of a dsl account and=20 lease IP addresses... are there any glitches? Pitfalls? etc etc...
Would like to hear what others may have experienced=E2=80=A6
I'm running Koha for my home library with a DSL line. It is simply another web application; there is no difference between Koha and any other use of a DSL line for web serving. QWest is giving you standard sales pitch. You DON'T need a commercial account or 20 IP addresses for Koha or web serving as such. You determine those things by what else you want to do with the DSL line. It may (or may not) be that the best package happens to include those also, but they aren't needed for Koha. Presumably we're discussing DSL at all because you want to offer your card catalog over the internet to others. The main DSL issue for web serving and therefore Koha will be *outbound* bandwidth. DSL, which usually means ADSL, is not symmetrical. You usually get much more bandwidth incoming than outgoing. This is great for your web surfing but not for serving. Make sure any DSL line specs include both directions. For example, if they tell you it is a 256kbps line speed, that's probably incoming, and the outgoing will likely be much smaller. Watch for that. DSL service is really made up of two halves to the equation: (1) the DSL line itself, which is just carrying dumb packets, and (2) Internet service over that line. In the US, you do *not* have to get your Internet service from the phone company that provides the DSL line itself. Qwest wants you to get both from them, and may even tell you that's the only choice. Don't believe them, and shop around for an alternate reputable ISP before just believing Qwest's sales pitch. Good luck! - Alan ---- Alan Millar --==> am12@bolis.com <==--