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  From: David Lloyd <lloy0076@rebel.net.au>
  To  : <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 11:19:09 +1030

Coax Network/Internet Speed Question

Hi!

I've finally managed to reactivate my second computer which is a:

* 450MHZ k6-III [1]
* 64 Mb RAM
* relatively slow hard drive

As in relatively slow, it's the current bottleneck on the computer. I
use Coax which is, I think, only 10mb/s so the network isn't
extraordinarily fast [2]. Now, if I've got it correct given that I'm the
only one using this machine on the network (there are only two machines
on the network) and it isn't a file server [3], the speed of my coax and
the hard drive won't particularly matter.

Especially since I use a very inexpensive, but slow ISP [4].

Now, I also intend to use:

* a full blown name server (BIND 8.2.latest-stable)
* SendMail
* DHCP
* SSHD

The SendMail will act as a relay for my main machine which will still
deal with all of my e-mail.