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Back in the day, didn't someone market a product called, "Provider in a Box"? And didn't New York's Pipeline (before they were acquired) rather cheaply set up I
by pseingatl 13y ago
Back in the day, didn't someone market a product called, "Provider in a Box"? And didn't New York's Pipeline (before they were acquired) rather cheaply set up ISP services?
- toast0 13y agoIs New York's Pipeline described here? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pipeline http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pipeline If so, yes, starting a dialup ISP is not too expensive, and not too difficult. A local ISP I worked for in 1999 ended up using a wholesale provider for dialup, we just ran a radius server for authentication, and mail and web servers. Unfortunately, the market for dialup ISPs is drying up, many more users want broadband connections, and in the US, it's very hard to get access to the last mile connections for broadband, unlike how easy it was to setup a bank of modems.
- greenyoda 13y agoThere were other small ISPs in NYC too. Panix.com started up in NYC in 1989 on a Mac running Unix (A/UX) with a handful of dialup modems, and grew quickly. They're still around today as an ISP (DSL/T1/T3) and hosting provider.
- jlgaddis 13y agoYes, when everyone already had phone lines in their homes and you could get any number of phone lines you wanted to any location you wanted to terminate the modem calls. Nowadays you have to build out that "phone line" (a.k.a. "the last mile") to the customer which is sorta what this article talks about.