An anonymous reader writes "It looks like my parents may end up stuck having to use dialup to access the internet from their cottage inside the Cape Cod National Seashore. Neither Comcast nor Verizon want to bother upgrading the hardware required to get them faster service, so for the near future dialup seems to be the only way to go. They could put a satellite dish on their roof, but it's a 300 year old house and they feel a dish would be as prohibitively ugly as running dedicated lines would be prohibitively expensive.
I've suggested they get familiar with a text-only email client, but are there other ways they can increase the functionality despite the pitiful bandwidth? I also suggested they talk with their senators and local political reps. Anyone else out there have some good ideas? Any success stories you can share where people have finally got the bandwidth they crave?"
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Setup a 2003 server or spare XP workstation at your house and let them RDP to it. Then low bandwidth on their side wont be an issue. It also greatly reduces the horsepower needed on their desktop as a side effect.
( i'm assuming you aren't giving them linux/bsd. But if so, then setup NX, with the same concept )
RDP (Score:2)
( i'm assuming you aren't giving them linux/bsd. But if so, then setup NX, with the same concept )