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Subject: Re: Upgrade the CCC

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 01:11:30 09/29/04

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On September 29, 2004 at 03:35:42, Aaron Gordon wrote:

>If you get a regular cable modem to run the board the CCC will be fine. Yes, a
>standard cable modem is PLENTY for this simple text board. How much do those
>cost? Well, about $50 a month or so, and could probably go with $29 per month
>for DSL. This is unlimited bandwidth at whatever the connection is capped at.


Do you know any ISPs that allow you to run a public server over your $50 per
month cable modem connection? I don't.


>Also Russell. What are you talking about, comparing messages? If you mean
>searching through previous posts.. that is all done on the server, not sending
>anything at all until the desired posts are found. Then the title of those
>results are displayed on the screen taking up less than 1kb of bandwidth. Then
>you can choose to click on whatever.. doesn't take much at all. Definitely not
>like running four 16 player Counter-Strike servers :P


I'm talking about every time someone refreshes the message index, or reads a
message. The data must be transferred from server to client. I'm just comparing
the size of the files (html, images, etc.). Maybe caching eliminates a lot of
the data to be transferred.



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