Re: tlug: Long lost Craig Oda

["Andrew S. Howell" <andy@example.com>]

>>>>> "Scott" == Scott Stone <sstone@example.com> writes:

    Scott> On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Karl-Max Wagner wrote:
    >> > On 13-Oct-98 Karl-Max Wagner wrote: > > Consequential
    >> question: What happened at TWICS ?  > > One of the big Internet
    >> firms (can't remember the name off-hand) recently > acquired
    >> TWICS. Change of ownership -> change of management?
    >> 
    >> PSInet. Found that out yesterday by poking around on the net.
    >> Yuck ! Is Internet going to be an all biggie affair in Japan ?
    >> Glad that it isn't like this here. Still lots of healthy
    >> competition....

    Scott> At least PSInet is good - they even have English-speaking
    Scott> tech support here in Japan...

I was thinking of using them. They charge the same price for a T1 as
we pay now for 64k Frame Relay to our head office in Palo Alto
CA. Granted its not the same thing, but I was thinking of the
possibility of setting up an encrypted VPN. I don't know what kind of
bandwidth we would end up with, but I'm quite sure it would be more
the 64k!

Andy
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