Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 10:16:40 +0100 (MET) From: Martin Husemann <martin@rumolt.teuto.de> To: avalon@advicom.net (Avalon Books) Cc: freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I4B support for US ISDN? Message-ID: <199901240916.KAA03119@rumolt.teuto.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901231912200.20739-100000@vespucci.advicom.net> from "Avalon Books" at Jan 23, 99 07:26:33 pm
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> redundant. And as expected, your inquiry has drawn a less-than- > enthusiastic response from our european counter-parts. I have no idea why > they give Americans such a frosty reception when we express an interest in > ISDN... Sorry you perceive it this way. The more constructive communication has been off-list. Please believe me, noone wants to make a frosty reception. Try to see it the other way around: what do WE get from working hard on implementing a non-european protocol? Besides fame and reputation there is not much - and all the people working on I4B are IMHO proven altruists. So at least make the hard work as easy as possible. When it looks possible (not yet, relevant standards are not at hand) it will get done, sometime. > Of course, we don't normally have to deal with the issue of fully > self-supporting drivers. Virtually all the ISDN equipment available in the > U.S. is connected via seri~al (aka Terminal Adapter) or Ethernet (aka > Router). I4B seems to be a good choice if you have something that doesn't > fall into either category. This is simply a matter of price. Whe I had the choice to buy a router or install an ISDN card in an existing PC at work about two years ago it was the choice between 1,600.-- DM for the router and 180.-- DM for the ISDN card. I chose the ISDN card and due to the general shape of the software at that time (a never released internal version of I4B's predecessor BISDN) spent nearly a week to get it working - so the card was much more expensive ;-) Today things have changed: you'll get a small router for about 250 Euro and an ISDN card for about 100 Euro, installation of the current software is automatic, so the ISDN card is cheaper now. External ISDN TA's are slightly more expensive then an ISDN card here, but not much. Of course you gain some flexibility with the I4B variant (all sources are there, you can program your own answering machine, ...) but if you are only interested in the basic features, this doesn't matter. Martin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message
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