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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
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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>
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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