Hi, If you really must *see* your colleague in Manila, we have a Color Connectix here hooked up to a Linux box. I'm currently setting it up at http://www.ph.apricot.net. I'm using the non-realtime cqcam for Red Hat/X and can do about a max of 5 pics per minute (currently driving it at 1/minute). Sorry, no sound cards available. If you want real videoconf, be prepared to pay a princely sum (US$2/minute) for ISDN Manila-US, or, help me configure something that runs on Win95/Linux/FreeBSD. For DIYers, get in touch with me to reserve some bandwidth (manually) on this line: ~ 300-500 copper circuit meters Shangri-La------------PLDT PHiX------Intelsat---------Teleglobe Hotel Manila 2 * 2 Mb/s 4 Mb/s Lands at Vancouver, BC <10 ms >600ms Transit: Sprint/MCI/UU/? | | 512 Kb/s, around 1 km away, <20ms | IPHIL.NET (AS4743, but static at the moment) mostly 203.176.0.0/18 | | 3 MB/s aggregate MCI PLDT == Philippine Long Distance Telephone PHiX == Yup, the telcos run the IXs here too I'm doing some tests here with persistent HTTP/1.1 (probably with Justin Newton if he comes by) and how it gives us a perceived 2x - 3x speedup (will see if we could roll the numbers later) I'm talking on this in a while (as well as a new way to look at the whole caching business, unless someone douses cold water on me. Basically you want your 1000 customers to have a 20 MB cache each rather than you maintain a 20 GB cache...) If you want the whole thing with pictures, we could work up something (ask your colleague to feed the IPhil Comms network engineering and consulting groups, any pizza appreciated) You can also check with me on the location of any particular person and his state of connectivity, if I know him... APRICOT won't make the reg database public, obviously. ISP connections are around US$1/hour (I can arrange one for you) but they usually need a ~US$30 non-refundable fee if it's more than 5/10 hours. GRIC/IPass have good local partners too. Cheers, ---m -- IPhil Communications Technology Group http://www.iphil.net +63-2-750-2288