Re: Service for those without ADSL

["Graham Howe" <graham@xxxxxxx>]

> Sounds good.... this sort of arrangement is something one of my 
mates 
> has been thinking about due to not being able to get ADSL. What 
are you 
> using to "cause my home server to connect" ? Thats the only
thing 
thats 
> puzzling me..... I've thought about various options with something
like 
> Homeseer Phone or some other answering software to force the home 
pc to 
> do the dial out to the net.... I even remember some software I had
>from
> my old BBS days which would sit and monitor the ring count, and if
you 
> rang the exact number of times, then hung up, it would launch the 
BBS 
> software, so you could call back into it in a couple of minutes 
time.....
> 
> Cheers

Through the maintenance web pages you set the schedule, this is then 
used when the colo server creates the page that is open on your home 
server. The page is simply created with a meta refresh tag that has 
the appropriate number of seconds on it. I have done the same thing 
with a phone based approach, but got fed up dialing home so I could 
connect. I find this approach much better, in that I can schedule 
connections anything up to every 15 minutes for times when I might 
want to access the machine but leave maybe hourly at other times.

Graham



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