Hello All, Myself and a group of friends wish to connect to WWW by using a permanent connection but if we all have 33.6K modems and are all connected then it seems that we require at least a 512K connection which is prohibitively expensive !
Question 1. Is the calculation: <number of possible users> = <permanent speed> div <users connection speed> correct ? (ie. 512K / 33.6K = 15.238... users) - I imagined that a high speed connection such as 512K would support 1000 users not just 15 ! Question 2. If we do not intend to host our own web pages on our computer do we need to use a web server such as Apache ? If not, what is the mechanism for accessing the web through a single computer ? Question 3. If we use Apache (or other server software), how does it work ??? I mean, does Apache request the page from the remote server, download to its own memory at, say, 512K and then send to the user at 33.6K or are all requests done at the speed of the user so that 15 users as calculated in question 1 is correct ? TIA Ivan.
