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That's pretty much what we did here. I signed us up for an account with a local ISP, and our testing Mac is for testing how stuff looks in Mac vs. PC (since 15% of our audience is on Macs) as well as for dialing up to the ISP to see how stuff works from outside our network. (Knowing whether things actually work at all over dialup is also useful -- the percentage of our audience on dialup Internet connections keeps shrinking, but it's still not zero.) The ISP is also our registrar for domain names like sonomalibrary.org and for a while supplied our T1 lines. Genny Engel Sonoma County Library [log in to unmask] 707 545-0831 x581 www.sonomalibrary.org >>> [log in to unmask] 09/17/08 10:15AM >>> Hi Chris, I'm not sure how your campus is set up, but our IT folks actually have a separate account with a local ISP just for this purpose; they were even nice enough to run a line into my office so I can plug in to test off-campus resources. Granted, if that doesn't already exists at your campus, it may cost substantially more than $30/yr, but personally I find it is a great way to test resources from "off-campus." Cheers, Adam Traub Systems Librarian St. John Fisher College 3690 East Avenue Rochester, New York 14618 Phone: (585)385-8382 Email: [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Chris Gray Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 12:42 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [CODE4LIB] Simulating off-campus for testing There are a number of services we offer that behave differently for off-campus users vs. on-campus users (based on IP address) and testing both behaviors is difficult while sitting on-campus. I'm looking for an easy, reliable, and secure way to do this. At the moment I'm doing a free 7-day trial of Anonymizer Anonymous Surfing software ($30/yr), but I want to make sure I'm not missing any good alternatives. Does anyone have any recomnendations or relevant experience? Chris Gray Library Systems University of Waterloo (hopeful future ex sysadmin firefighter %-)