To ensure the quality of dial-up lines, TropicNet uses a fiberoptics cable connected directly to the BellSouth Miami Beach switch. In an emergency, this machine could be configured to act as the main host, web server or news server, as it is unlikely that more than one server is out of order at the same time. Backups are performed with an 8mm Exabyte 8505XL tape drive, which can dump 5 GB of information on a single 8mm tape cartridge without data compression. An 8mm Exabyte 8500 tape drive is used for dumps on the other servers. Those not familiar with UNIX commands can use a friendly menu interface for their system command needs.
Manual pages are available online for virtually every system command.
In fact, our setup allows the user to select at login time the preferred method of system access. Utilities and Miscellaneous Net Software TropicNet users enjoy a wide variety of Internet information search, access, retrieval, and forwarding tools. Home pages can be easily created and uploaded to our server using Netscape 3.0. We also support commercial Web pages for our business account customers. We support several popular packages, among them Netscape, Trumpet Winsock, telnet, Eudora, Free Agent, Archie, FTP and Gopher for Windows.