[log in to unmask],Net wrote at 22:16 on 23/11/98 
about "RE: Cost of linking practices to the Internet":
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>One needs to have an ISDN line with a router, 
Doesn't the router/firewall give you IP over the network to your W95 
and WfWG clients running (say) Opera in 32-16MBytes, or IE4 in 
64-32MBytes?
If the network is the latest version of Netware then you have IP as 
native protocol, but if not just install tcp/ip on the W95 clinets 
and find somebody who understands Wolverine taming to do it for the 
WfWG boxes.

>Windows NT is required to get
>browsing on every desktop and you need Microsoft
>Exchange server. 
Certainly it is likely to be a "strategic" choice, as is Lotus 
Notes...

>Terminals need to be  high end Pentium and need a minimum of
>64Mb Ram to get NT running correctly. Network has to
>be Cat5 ethernet with 100MBPs network cards.
HOACPM, the network into the practice _in my wilder dreams_ is 2 
MBit/s, what are the 100MBit/s I need slopping around?
Screens are only a couple of k and if we are going to have powerful 
servers running OS' intended to do more than file services, then not 
a lot more than that should really be going around.

>Server ideally should be Pentium
>II with preferably 128Mb RAM. Anyone like to add
>anything?
Well, my _wildest_ dreams include a 10 MBit/s WAN over all buildings 
used by the org. including GPs homes, using fibreoptic lines.
--- OffRoad 1.9r registered to Adrian Midgley


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