Generally speaking, most kids at home have more bandwidth to play with
then they do at school. The average school might have a T1. Some might
have a couple. Most of the schools I've dealt with only have a 256, 512,
or 768k frame-relay connection. The ones that have a T1 to play with
barely touch it. I've gotten over 2Mb/sec out of my cable modem here in
a podunk corner of Kansas. I got even better from SWB DSL before I
moved. Dialup is on the decline for the most part. DSL/Cable is on the
rise. That at least holds true to parents with kids or reasonably saavy
college kids. The only people I've found to be buying dialups are people
who can't afford cable/dsl at the moment, are beginners and they don't
think they need the glory of something faster, or they realize that all
they'll do is send email and view a few webpages. Most everyone else
(that can get it) goes for something with a little more umph. The
University I currently work for only has 2 T1s. We got the 2nd in
December. This summer we'll go to 6 I-MUX. That's my take on the
situation.

Cheers,
  Justin

FWIW, the number of port 111 probes I've logged have more the quadrupled
since mid May.

On 6/12/01 11:10 AM sarnoldwirex.com said...

>On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 10:26:58AM -0500, gene.g.beairdmail.sprint.com
>wrote:
>> School's out! :-(
>
>Eh? Is this the collective experience of others? I would have thought
>the exact opposite, what with high-bandwidth connections at most schools
>but not at home.
>
>Respond to me privately, I'll summarize.
>
>[...]
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: JObert [mailto:JObertsprg.smhs.com]
>[...]
>> Since February, I've been receiving tcp port scans for the default sub7
>> port
>> (27374) at a rate of approximately 3-4 per day. Starting on June 8th to
>> present, I've been receiving them at 9 times that rate.

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