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Hi John, On Fri, 26 Sep 2014, John Dennis Elliott wrote: > I live in Truro, so hypothetical for me, but is using the mesh approach > feasible for Chebucto at least in the campus/downtown area? No idea > really how you are providing local wi-fi; did I read you have an antenna > on a campus building? Currently, we are providing hi-speed wifi to three seniors' residences (large buildings) and the area between them (several blocks). As the mesh area grows larger, more neighbourhoods fall within signal range. Users can use their regular accounts via a VPN setup. Visit our homepage and you can read our Twitter blog postings which explain a lot of this. > For many years I accessed you by c64 and phoning long distance to your > number. Too bad there is not an accessible 800 number, or I would still do > it. Costs I understand would be prohibitive. But in the days of fidonet, I > used to access K-12 net via an 800 number in Debert; I imagine payed for by > the Maritime educational agreement. We once thought of providing 800 service, but the cost was huge compared to regular phone lines. We have several members from the U.S. who have unlimited long distance dial-up packages for $30. a month through their local phone providers. A couple of others use that 1010-710 (or something like that) service in the U.S. and pay pennies a minute. I think Telus was planning unlimited packages awhile back but never went through with it. > i have been with you from the beginning, and you are being payed volunteers' > wages, but I am puzzled by almost daily difficulty of accessing web mail. > The problems started for me a very few years ago when I think you upgraded > most of you equipment. Only one volunteer is paid a half salary and donates much more of his time to help keep CCN's costs down. Everyone else is an unpaid volunteer. The reason we exist is to provide a low cost/free alternative to the commercial services for those who have little or no money to have internet service. I don't work with the mail server, so I can't offer an explanation as to why it is so wonky but we volunteers who work from our home suffer the same problems as you do. I think a lot of it simply has to do with the fact that CCN filters millions of pieces of mail daily and much of it is is spam (something to the order of 90% or higher, compared to legit mail). This clogs the mail server constantly and, if it occurs in the middle of the night, when there is no one in the office, the server will stay stuck until the office staff come in the next day. Sometimes they may check, if they're up late and online. Lately, there have been deliberate denial of service attacks on us by spammers. > Just some rambling thoughts. I sometimes think we would be almost as > advanced today if we had stuck with the Vic-20. :) I still use my legacy computers everyday on CCN; sometimes logging in with my Vic-20, my C64/128, Apple IIc & GS, my TI99/4A, my TRS-80, my Color Computer, my Timex Sinclair, my Atari XL/XE/ST, my Amiga 1200 etc. I like to, constantly, use them to ensure our legacy users (and there are 14 of them) can still connect with the internet at large, using legacy systems. That way, they can upload/download files to/from their respective ftp and web sites, in their native file system formats. Tony @ CCN Help
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