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Technology Stocks : Dell Technologies Inc. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Koligman who wrote (67230)	9/25/1998 11:27:00 AM
From: Ken Beal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Hi John, In checking out the service that Bell Atlantic will offer, it will be tied to one computer. Not good for me and many others, as I dial in from multiple machines all over the house. I don't know what their answer to this is as of yet.... The answer is what I've done with my cable modem. It's one-way (BellSouth, SurfBoard; 1.5M down, but only 26.4K up -- uses a regular modem for the upstream). I bought WinProxy winproxy.com to share the Internet with my wife's computer. They have several ports already set up to forward, and you can customize your own ports too (for applications that haven't been written yet). See winproxy.com for pricing -- it's $300 for unlimited client connections, or just $60 for 3 client connections. Since I've only got one machine to share it to, $60 was an easy purchase after having spent a month using the software for free, making sure it works. I love the "drug dealer" distribution model -- "first one's free!" ;-) Another option for you, being a Dell investor, might be to purchase one of those $1000 machines from idot.com (I just did) and set it up as a "firewall". For me it's essential right now, as Windows 95/98 keeps crashing on me, about 3 times a week and I'll lose whatever I was working on. That's no fun. I'd love to go to NT, but the problem is the drivers for the SurfBoard only work in 95/98. So I bought a "dumb" machine to install the cable modem on, and then I'll put NT on my machine to stop it from crashing (yeah, I know, I should add the words "as much" ;-). Cheers, KenB