[WEB4LIB] cable modems for public internet PCs

[Masters, Gary E]

My brother has had good results with 2wire products.  He does a lot of work
with broadband and evaluates the different vendors.  

http://www.2wire.com/ <http://www.2wire.com/> 

They have several interesting options - even wireless.


Gary

Gary Masters 

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Reed, Tracey [SMTP:treed at clearwater-fl.com]
	Sent:	Friday, December 28, 2001 10:09 AM
	To:	Multiple recipients of list
	Subject:	[WEB4LIB] cable modems for public internet PCs

	Hi y'all!  Happy New Year!

	We're considering going to cable modems for our public Internet PCs.
The
	City IT department is anxious to do this, but I can see pros and
cons to it.

	The concerns we have - off the tops of our heads - are subscription
database
	access, filtering potential, networking for printing & sign-up,
bandwidth
	setup for multiple PCs, and flexibility for a temporary location
while our
	new Main Library is being built.

	The benefit we can see is getting the PCs on a separate connection
than the
	staff PCs which is currently a big security, bandwidth and cabling
	nightmare.  

	Has anyone done this?  Can anyone see other concerns or benefits
that we're
	missing.  

	TIA - 

	-tracey


	___________________
	Tracey Reed
	Webmaster/Systems Analyst
	Clearwater Public Library System, Clearwater, FL.
	treed at clearwater-fl.com