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To: FR1 who wrote (783)	11/27/1997 8:55:00 PM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29970

My question was prompted by the key assumption that @Home isn't available. Outside of that, let's look more closely at your strategy. A good ISP like those supported by ATT and UUnet will provide 5 megs free hosting. The next level up is $20/mo for 10 megs site, 500 meg/mo traffic. The concept you have in mind, I assume, can be covered by at least the second contract. You would have to have a greater site storage than 10 megs to get into the monies you are talking about. At that level you should be easily able to afford @Work if the site demands lots of interactive traffic. @Work at $500/mo wouldn't make much sense without high speed interactive necessity. You currently only find such necessity in large operations where existing load is swamping capacity. If you pick up 300 megs/mo data , 10 meg/day, that would be, say, 1 1/2 hour download at 56kbps. Not prohibitive, but puts @Work value at this scale in question. Let me itemize: 1. existing copper ISPs are cheap, so you keep it for response. 2. you set up a host only account with @Home to receive incoming traffic 3. you access and download accumulated data using copper ISP I just don't know enough about this division to speak intelligently. The company better have very well defined targets in mind, because simply saying we're going hook your LAN to the WWW won't cut it with MIS ouside of any discussion of security. MIS won't like it because they've spent years trying to get MSFT and NOVL junk to work. It's finally starting to settle down and they won't trust a new unestablished technology. Someone will take the plunge and then they all will see they gotta have it. We need to have more discussion on this point, please respond.