[Web4lib] Dial-up back-up suggestions?

[Andrew Hankinson]

You could consider subscribing to a cheap adsl package from a  
commercial provider. If you're going to be paying a fee for the backup  
service anyway, at least having high-speed would help. In my  
(admitedly) small experience, dial-up lines are almost the same price  
as DSL for little gain.

  Of course it always depends on why the Internet is going out. If a  
backhoe cut your telecom lines, you could be without phone and Internet.

-Andrew

On 2009-11-11, at 1:52, Stacy Pober <stacy.pober at manhattan.edu> wrote:

>> If you are thinking of providing service over dial-up during an
>> outage, this will probably only provide an additional source of
>> frustration.
>
> Not really. We had a recent campus-wide internet outage and I used my
> personal dialup account.  This gave the staff access to our OPAC,
> including the staff client since they are remotely hosted.
>
>  It allowed us to search for books for students and give them call
> numbers.  The staff could check books in and out, including full
> information such as fines for overdues, though they had to manually
> type the barcodes in.
>
> Dial up would give us access to non-subscription databases such as
> PubMed and Google Scholar.  We could probably use some of the
> subscription databases that have password access in addition to the
> normal IP filtered access, though we use the passwords so rarely
> remembering them might be an issue.
>
> Dial up was far from ideal, but it was definitely better than nothing!
>
> Stacy
>
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Cary Gordon <listuser at chillco.com>  
> wrote:
>> If you are thinking of providing service over dial-up during an
>> outage, this will probably only provide an additional source of
>> frustration.
>>
>> If you simply want personal access, many broadband providers offer
>> this as an add-on.
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Stacy Pober <stacy.pober at manhattan.edu 
>> > wrote:
>>> We have had some recent network outages that make us want to  
>>> subscribe
>>> to a dial-up internet ISP just for these (hopefully) rare   
>>> occasions.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions for low-cost but reliable dial-up ISPs that will  
>>> let us pay
>>> on an annual basis?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Stacy Pober
>>> Information Alchemist
>>> Manhattan College Library
>>> Riverdale, NY 10471
>>> stacy.pober at manhattan.edu
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Cary Gordon
>> The Cherry Hill Company
>> http://chillco.com
>>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Stacy Pober
> Information Alchemist
> Manhattan College Library
> Riverdale, NY 10471
> stacy.pober at manhattan.edu
>
>
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