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From: las@light-house.com
Subject: Re: X on dial-in
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References: <3shogq$am8@datamagic.com>
Organization: Linux site in Toronto, Canada
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 20:20:28 GMT
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Steve Kanefsky (kanefsky@datamagic.com) wrote:
: In article <3sf1ba$6ss@park.uvsc.edu>,
: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> wrote:
: >kanefsky@datamagic.com (Steve Kanefsky) wrote:
: >
: >Most ISPs charge on the order of half of what Sprint charges
: >for a T1 for a 56k line (at least in this area).
: I find this very difficult to believe. First of all, any ISP worth his
: salt (and certainly the ones I've been referring to) has at least two
: path-diverse T1's going to a T3 (or better) backbone, and they may be
: dedicated T1's and not frame-relay. I think they run into the thousands
Few.
Most of the small-time operators don't even have a fractional T1.
Regards,
Laszlo Herczeg
E-mail: las@light-house.com WWW: http://abyss.idirect.com/las.html
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