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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!newshub1.home.com!newshub2.home.com!news.home.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!masternews.telia.net!newsfeed50.telia.com!alpha2.nipnett.no!newsmaster@riksnett.no From: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Leased line options? Date: 05 May 1997 20:50:45 +0200 Organization: Riksnett AS Lines: 23 Sender: eivind@bitbox.follo.net Message-ID: <86ohapwy62.fsf@bitbox.follo.net> References: <5kkmlf$j84@news.mel.aone.net.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: bitbox.follo.net In-reply-to: nigel@palms.nq.net's message of Mon, 05 May 1997 13:17:33 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40682 In article <5kkmlf$j84@news.mel.aone.net.au> nigel@palms.nq.net (Nigel Gorry) writes: > Can anyone point me in the right direction for a leased line network > connection between 2 FreeBSD machines? > > I use my FreeBSD (2.2.1) machine at home as a router and I'm sick of > paying for local calls, so I want to find out what is available to > use over a leased line for a distance of 1 kilometre (0.6 mile)... > ISDN is too expensive (about 10 times the cost of a leased line) Any leased line modem. Over that distance, you should be be able to run at least 2Mbps, if you want to pay that much for modems. (About $2k in modems, I'd guess.) Or you can run 28.8k for about $100 in modems :) Eivind.