In support of our mission, Fairfax Public Access manages an all-volunteer, not-for-profit, Internet Service serving the Washington D.C. area: Nova.org. We operate from facilities here at FPA and provide low-cost direct Internet access for a wide variety of public organizations as well as individual computer enthusiasts who are local to our area.

We provide. . .

• A clear channel T1 line to XO communications, our upstream ISP. This provides outstanding throughput to the Internet.

• The FPA dial server consists of 46 all-digital V.90 modem. These modems support speeds of up to 56k, and ISDN connections. Our dial ratio is 5:1, meaning we have 5 subscribers for every modem. Most ISPs average a 12:1 ratio or higher. A low ratio means you get a higher call success rate, and no busy signals.

• We have replaced our Sun SPARCstation web and mail servers with two new Dual Pentium FreeBSD UNIX servers, creating an awesome performance increase.

• Up to 4 email accounts, in addition to your primary email/dial account.

• Apache Web server hosting access with 100MB of storage space

• UNIX shell account, if requested.

• Domain Name hosting (free!)