venta@i2ack.UUCP (Paolo Ventafridda) (01/27/89)
In article <7075@mailgw.cc.umich.edu>, emv@a.cc.umich.edu (Ed Vielmetti) writes: > > well, then, you'd need an alternative map coordinator for italy. > collect all the site information and ship off the map to rutgers, > and see if Mel will publish it. > Now I don't see i2ack in the pyramid map, so I can't get there > from here automatically, but I'll put that in my local paths file > and be done with it. Then there's the small matter of getting > maps for all of i2ack's attached sites.... > As in the signature, i am the actual map coordinator. Since we are receiving these days a lot of subscriptions, i am just waiting for a definite situation. I posted my map here just to let it go around a bit; i know i need to send it to rutgers, but until things are fixed here i won't. For instance, i2ack is now being replaced as a News Feed by "deejay", the main sponsor for SUBlink, and the only one with a Trailblazer Plus: our 3 Trailblazer T1000 won't get here before some time. Also on international calls, the Telebit performs pretty well, i.e. around 7000 bit/s using g proto. With f proto it should go much faster. Probably we could approach 10000 ( not a so bad line..). Let's consider the slowest speed (7000): last night the average transfer rate was around 80 seconds for 50+ Kbytes. On Itapac - according to what I2unix told me - this would cost 300 Lire for each K = 15000 Lire. Our transfer did not cost more that 2700. If we were using f proto, i think we could gain the 2000< limit. This means anyway from 5 to 7 times cheaper transfers. As far as A.Berni (postmaster@i2unix), mcvax DOES HAVE a Trailblazer too! So..PTT is the real problem? Lets face it. We are talking about lowering down costs 5-7 . If all of this mess i caused on EUnet will bring the network to use faster connections and lower down prices, i won't care too much of mail rejection. Cause i will afford paying eunet and being an official european site. Greets, Paolo -- Paolo Ventafridda Via Ottoboni 6,20148 Milano - Italy Tel.+392-4032432 EUnet:blue@altger EUcon:venta@i2ack BANG:{pyramid,altger,tmpmbx}!i2ack!venta SUBLINK Maps & Network management , Italy \/ "Please don't shoot the Operator"