who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

Mon Mar 15 07:17:35 UTC 2004

Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote:

> 
> Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> 
>> And what is wrong with setting up a hub or something in a dormroom?  I 
>> find it quite convenient to leave both my PC and a laptop running on 
>> my desk, for various reasons (too many open terminals and windows is 
>> one of them ...)
> 
> 
> I've been trying to figure out what is wrong with that too.
> 
> At my ex-employers, on of the things they did right is encourage
> study groups, and with multi-occupant suites, several stations
> (including one or more printers, plotters, and such) was normal.
> 
> Most of the residence halls had hubs or small switches available for
> check-out.
> 
> Is it the contention that each student should only use one pencil?
> 

If you have 300 students and 500 pencils, then the answer is yes.  If 
everyone grabbed 3 pencils, you'd run out pretty quick.  There are only 
so many addresses available in the DHCP pool.

The smarter students put a NAT box on their port so they can run their 
desktop, laptop, XBox and have a place their friend can plug in.

Ken