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List:       inet-access
Subject:    RE: rural / economical access server?
From:       Andy <andy () tigerteam ! net>
Date:       2001-02-28 22:09:32
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On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Mark Radabaugh wrote:

> You will be amazed at the number of people you get in a rural area (and how
> heavily they will use the modems).  Keep in mind that the smaller your dialup
> pool the lower the modem ratio works out to be -- with 24 lines in a pop you
> will be lucky to get more than about 100 customers using it before getting busy
> signals.
> 

I will second this remembering back to my dialup days. The more rural/less
affluant areas had a much lower ratio and a whole lot of line
campers. Nothing else to do I suppose...

andy

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