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Xref: sserve comp.sys.powerpc:32719 comp.sys.intel:30209 comp.unix.bsd:15964 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:8038 comp.unix.sys5.r4:9106 comp.unix.misc:15667 comp.os.linux.development:22777 comp.os.linux.misc:33937 comp.os.386bsd.development:3063 comp.os.386bsd.misc:5041 comp.os.misc:3720 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.intel,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.misc,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.misc Subject: Re: X on dial-in Date: 23 Jan 1995 16:45:12 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3g0meo$oo2@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3f44s2$jqm@maverick.maverick.tad.eds.com> <790508225snz@apis.demon.co.uk> <D2rC7p.Lx@kerberos.demon.co.uk> <3fv9sg$8dp@villa.fc.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <3fv9sg$8dp@villa.fc.net>, KevinTX <kevintx@primus.paranoia.com> wrote: >I've had 128kbps for 7 months now.. and at only $70/US including all >taxes (the FCC has a rather large tax on ISDN for some reason). That's >dirt cheap for high speed transmission over normal phone lines and with >the ability to add and subtract channels on demand to meet your bandwidth >needs, etc. Deployment around the rest of Texas is in progress. Yeah, but what about the per-unit charges? As currently billed, ISDN is *useless* for dedicated connections and the current support for bidirectional, on-demand routing in most (if not all) the Free OS's is so woeful as to make this a none-too-pleasant option. Plus even with decent dial-on-demand (say you use a Cisco for this), you're left with some hefty phone bills if you happen to start up a large and critical transfer that goes into overtime and keeps you connected during business hours. Nope. Until I can deploy dedicated links over ISDN at a *fixed and known cost*, I'll stick with switched 56 or frame relay for connections! Jordan