4/22 I'm thinking about getting SHIP. Anybody hear whether they suck or not
$10 seems pretty cheap.
\_ [insert lame Titanic joke by EECS freshman who thinks he's all that]
\_ Tang is good for 3 things: pregnancy, STD's and sports related
injuries. If you health problem doesn't fall into one of those
categories, they'll diagnose you into one of them anyway.
\_Actually Tang was very good a couple of years ago when I had a
stomach virus and could not keep food down for a week. With my
current healthcare (Healthnet), however, I keep getting the
runaround and have yet to see the inside of my dr's office.
Couldn't even get past the receptionist on the phone to get an
appointment.
\_ perhaps person means new HIP service from CNS?
\_ yeah, that's what I meant but everyone seems to think that
I'm talking about the university health plan.
\_ CNS, like Microsoft, is re-using old acronyms.
\_ SHIP = Student Health Insurance Plan. (Tang Center)
HIP = Home IP. (service/account/ppp/whatever)
Does SHIP also stand for something like Student Home IP?
\_ Subscription Home-IP. Like Home-IP, but you pay for
it and supposedly there are enough modems to go around.
\_ Huh? What for? I already have free home-ip.
Who is this service for?
\_ tang is mostly incompetent, but at least you can get an appt.
\_ anyone else care to make broad, unsupported comments?
\_ Unsupported?! Uh, try going there as a woman. Try going
there without an STD or sports injury. Been there? Or
do you mean that "at least you can get an appt" is the
broad and unsupported comment? I'll agree to that. It's
hard to get an appointment for something serious if you're
not already bleeding.
\_ Perhaps you don't understand the meaning of the word
"unsupported".
\_ The experience of 32000+ students sounds like a
good argument to me. You had another measure in
mind?
\_ gee, you speak for 32000+ students? Who are
you?
\_ SHIP (subscription home-IP) is EXCELLENT. No busy dial in,
connection to Berkeley is excellent. However, connection to
outside Berkeley is lousy but that's a trade-off I can deal
with.
\_ I bought Subscription Home-IP. I like it because my connection
to campus is fast.
\_ How is SHIP different from HIP?
\_ They kick you off every 8 hours instead of 2
\_ http://www.net.berkeley.edu/dcns/modems/ship.html
\_ It's $10/month and faster.
\_ 56k?
\_Yes. Currently K56Flex, will be
upgraded to V.90 once the standard
is ratified (and cisco releases the
updater software).
\_ Few (if any) busy signals.
\_cheaper than most ISPs (and you get a http://berkeley.edu
IP address.)
\_ For about the same cost as a 2nd phone line,
you can get Ricochet wireless with zero busy
signals, unlimited access, and local access to
UCBNet from anywhere in the Bay Area.
\_ give it up tpc
\_ go away aspolito
\_ Not until I get another piece of your
warm, hairy ass. -aspolito
\_ Seattle, too. Kinda slow, though. --tsang |
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