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From: neil@zamnet.zm (Neil Robinson) To: sghuter@nsrc.org Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 08:30:57 +0200 (SAT) Hi, > 1) A brief technical description of your current network We have a full TCP/IP connection to South Africa connecting to Internet Africa in Cape Town. The link runs at 14,400 on a good day! It is heavily congested and not of good quality. We are putting in a 64kb IBS earth-station to link us to UUNet-Pipex in Atlanta, USA via Panamsat. This equipment was ordered in November 1995! All we seem to be missing right now is the correct feedhorn and we expect (hope!) to be fully operational with this by mid-January if not before. We are also setting up an office in Kitwe in the Copperbelt which we will link to Lusaka using a 19,200 (hopefully) data circuit and we plan to install a second earth-station in Kitwe next year. Our fidonet service has operated purely nationally for the last two years and only recently we have terminated that service. All existing fidonet users are now using dial up TCP/IP. > 2) A brief technical description of the equipment/platform you are using > for your servers, routers, etc. Mail and WWW servers are all PCs (Pentiums and 486's) running FreeBSD. Our dial in terminal servers are a mixture of USRobotics and Livingston Portmaster products providing 40 dial in access telephone lines, 20 of which operate up to 28.8, the rest up to 14.4. Our routers are Ciscos. > 3) Information about your pricing/costs of using your network. Apart from the University of Zambia whose campus network is connected to ZAMNET and thus to the Internet we have just one other leased line customer: the United Nations. Both pay a fixed monthly fee for Internet access. Our dial up customers pay the following: US$30: signing on fee US$50: software (if required) US$20: training (if required) US$25: monthly subscription (3 hours free connect time) US$7: hourly connect time charge above 3 hours. Best Regards, Neil Robinson ZAMNET Support