colocation idea

["Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" <carls@agritech.com>]

        here's something that just occurred to me this morning:
        for ppl who are still sucking their net access through an analog
modem (like myself); why not put a box at a colocation site, with a
CD-burner in it. all the stuff you'd regularly DL, but isn't very
time-sensitive (some Usenet, some FTP/WWW site updates, plus system logs if
you were serving up a net site as well); you just burn to the CD, and have
the ISP mail it to you. 
        you get non-volatile storage; you get a reliable (as reliable as the
ISP at least) net connection; you don't tie up one of the ISP's modems; you
don't tie up your own phone line.
        to take it a step further, you could use Lightweight X (or some
thin-client product) to actually put your 'presence' at the fat end of the
pipe; where you could use the ISP's full T3 (or whatever they have) line to
do your browsing!

hmm. this is starting to sound appealing....
it's going to be *ages* b4 DSL gets out here to Buffalo.

Bob Tanner, you run an ISP, what do you think of the idea?

Carl Soderstrom
System Administrator	307 Brighton Ave. 
Minnesota DHIA		Buffalo, MN	
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