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Xref: sserve comp.sys.powerpc:33682 comp.sys.intel:31160 comp.unix.bsd:16059 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:8103 comp.unix.sys5.r4:9170 comp.unix.misc:15902 comp.os.linux.development:23230 comp.os.linux.misc:34746 comp.os.386bsd.development:3130 comp.os.386bsd.misc:5231 comp.os.misc:3760 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!news.moneng.mei.com!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.mindlink.net!giant!a09878 From: a09878@giant.rsoft.bc.ca (Curt Sampson) 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: 6 Feb 1995 02:57:07 GMT Organization: MIND LINK! Communications Corp., Langley, BC, Canada Lines: 26 Message-ID: <3h4363$jqv@deep.rsoft.bc.ca> References: <3f44s2$jqm@maverick.maverick.tad.eds.com> <fgoldstein.135.00237A26@bbn.com> <D3Fp3y.1EI@park.uvsc.edu> <D3IDK1.B73@bonkers.taronga.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: giant.mindlink.net In article <D3IDK1.B73@bonkers.taronga.com>, Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com> wrote: >Look, the bottom line is that for the phone company I'm using *less* of >their resources leaving a computer hooked to my ISDN line 24 hours a day >than making a few video calls. Whether I'm "connected" or not, their >resources are only tied up when I send packets, and video chews up a >shitload more packets than my newsfeed, Mosaic, and telnet sessions. This is, unfortunately, not the case. Whenever you have a telephone circuit connected to someone else you're using one of the limited numbers of circuits available in the switch. Telephone exchanges do not have anywhere near as many circuits as they have local loops connected to them. (Our AT&T PBX (which very much resembles a small version of modern AT&T local branch office switches) for example, will support several thousand telephone extensions (local loops), but no more than about 500 simultaneous circuits at once. As well, the trunk capacity between offices is limited, and your connection would probably be tying up one of these trunk lines permanently. cjs -- Curt Sampson a09878@giant.rsoft.bc.ca Opinions are mine, Fluor Daniel Wright, Ltd. 604 488 2226 not Fluor Daniel's. 1075 W. Georgia Street Vancouver, B.C., V6E 4M7 De gustibus, aut bene aut nihil.