RE: AS/400 internet conection

["Art Tostaine, Jr." <art@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

James:

You only have to pay $85 to USWest?  Do you have to pay hourly charges?

Art Tostaine, Jr.
CCA, Inc.
Parlin, NJ  08859


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of James W Kilgore
> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 1999 11:22 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: AS/400 internet conection
> 
> 
> Mike,
> 
> We have a setup like Art describes.  Really simple.
> The local telco (USWest) charges $85/mo for an ISDN line and 
> NWNexus has
> a soho offering of 250 hours/month for $85/mo.  That covers 
> 10 hours/day
> before extra charges kick in.
> 
> NWNexus provided a router (Netopia) for $700, which they 
> configured with
> a static IP address.
> 
> The only problem we have run into is that the ISP setup is 
> designed for
> outbound traffic.  When the router at the 400 times out, it 
> doesn't wake
> up from outside traffic.  We wrote a program that does a ping every 15
> seconds and that solved that.
> 
> HTH

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