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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: 11 Feb 1995 18:07:23 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! Communications Corp., Langley, BC, Canada
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Message-ID: <3hiucr$613@deep.rsoft.bc.ca>
References: <3f44s2$jqm@maverick.maverick.tad.eds.com> <D3ns6F.2w9@bonkers.taronga.com> <fgoldstein.156.00469051@bbn.com> <D3uD9t.6Fv@bonkers.taronga.com>
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In article <D3uD9t.6Fv@bonkers.taronga.com>,
Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com> wrote:

>So there's no *technical* reason I couldn't call up the phone company and
>say "I want to buy a chunk of 64Kbps low priority bandwidth" and have it
>run anywhere from 0K to 64K depending on other load. Maybe it's only 10K
>during the day, and bursty, or it gets a 5 second lag now and then when I
>haven't sent any bits in a while....

There's no other reason you couldn't do that, either. Just call up
AT&T, MCI, or some other telephone company and ask for Frame Relay.

cjs
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