| DSL Life - things you can do with DSL |
Introduction
What are people doing with their DSL lines? What's the buzz? What would YOU do? Feel free to add an idea to the comments board in this box if you dont see your stuff included in the other boxes on this page. We're looking for new cutting edge internet stuff that DSL really makes possible!
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| Phone Calls
With a fast line, you should be able to make phone calls over the net with less hassle than modem connections. Configuring whatever security/firewall you have can be a hassle though, as different applications need different incoming ports to be open to receive calls. Whatever you use, there should be a FAQ available on what you need to do to configure your firewall to full enable the product.
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 www.callrewards.com
www.deltathree.com
www.mediaring.com
www.accesspower.com
www.net2phone.com
www.dialpad.com
| Telecommute
You've got a DSL line, your office has a T1. Is there some way this can be put together? Yes! Check into tunneled, encyrpted, networks.. create a pipe between you and your office server, via your office firewall, and your home PC suddenly has access to all the resources of the office (printers, intranet, office applications, files, whatever).
Unfortunately, true point to point secure VPNs are difficult to implement over firewalls and NAT boxes, read the first link below for more information on this.
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www.internetwk.com/marketing..
www.ipsec.com/
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Be a micro broadcaster
 live365.com -- download a CD RIPPER, a MP3 ENCODER, and SHOUTCAST, and you can stream a live playlist to live365.com, and they'll broadcast it out to the world.. Add a Mic and a mixer, and you can even see if "you have a face for radio". [ For Linux, download GRIP, DigitalDJ, CDParanoia, Alsaplayer or xmms, LAME and icecast, and a few other bits these pages recommend, and you're in business. You can find all this cool stuff on freshmeat.net ]
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www.live365.com
freshmeat.net
| fax
Why not sign up for one of the internet fax inboxes? with a fulltime highspeed net connection, get your own national fax number and have faxes (and voicemail) delivered to you by electronic email, or viewable over the web, with no bandwidth difficulties.
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www.jfax.com
www.efax.com
| Multiplayer Games
Waste the winter months! get into some multiplayer games. Watch modem users freeze or disappear as their connection drops. Casually offer to host multiplayer games on your computer, since you have spare capacity. Use your low ping unfair advantage against other players, after all, wouldn't they use it on you!
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Web Storage
Check up some of the online web enabled file-storage solutions... time to back those files in an encrypted, fire-safe, remote disk drive, accessible by you from any web browser in any internet cafe in the world! Maybe with DSL they will actually be fast enough to be useful!
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www.idrive.com
www.idrop.com
www.storagepoint.com
www.backup.com
| Bookmarks
Dont keep local bookmarks, keep web bookmarks. Signup for an online web bookmark storage system. Never lose another bookmark again! always find your collection no matter where you are.. and, bonus, check out the most popular bookmarks in other peoples bookmark collections!
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www.blink.com
www.mybookmarks.com
| Desktop
Tired of a non-portable desktop? How about my-desktop! with bandwidth, everything becomes possible. Organize things the way you like, and you can get at yoru stuff from anywhere.
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www.mydesktop.com
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Rich Media!
Many sites offering streaming video/audio, flash animations, 3d plugins for your browser.. Check them out! You may need a realaudio G2 player (free), and/or an mp3 player.
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| Download big game demos!
Visit www.download.com games section, to pick out some new top rated game demos.. some of these can be 30+mb big! never fear, DSL will cut through that.
www.download.com/pc/cdoor/0,..
| MP3s and Napster
date: Tue Oct 19 11:06:14 EDT 1999
MP3s are big. Far smaller than the raw data they are encoded from, but still over a megabyte or more per track for near-cd quality sound. DSL is just right for sharing them with your friends. Napster gives you the ultimate (windows only right now) cooperative mp3 database. Join in, share your collection, and have access to 970,000 other music collections that you can download. The record companies are going to have a cow over Napster.
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www.winamp.com
www.napster.com
www.mp3.com
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Video phone?
For windows, try out netmeeting, either chat via audio, or get a web cam and try audio/video. Use ICQ as the basis for launching these audio/video chat programs, and finding others who want to try them out.
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cws.internet.com/32chat.html..
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