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From: Dave Andersen <angio@aros.net>
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Subject: Re: 128k ISDN vs. T1
To: rls@shell.id.net (Robert Shady)
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 01:49:39 -0600 (MDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199608250154.VAA15557@shell.id.net> from "Robert Shady" at Aug 24, 96 09:54:12 pm
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ISDN PRI costs as much as, if not more, T1 data service.  It's also not a 
good solution in any case for Internet connectivity - multiplexing 23 B 
channels will have 10x the latency (quite literally) as a single T1 or 
fractional T1.

 -Dave Andersen

Lo and behold, Robert Shady once said:
> 
> > Sorry to be rude, but another "Wanna-be-ISP". First it looks like you should
> > go and read more about what is possible in telecommunication hardware.
> > Like that ISDN is not upgradable over that 128K. That there exist Fractional
> > T1. Frame Relay. And so on and so on.
> 
> Well, obviously another clueless "thinks-he's-an-isp"... Ever hear of 
> ISDN PRI?  We're running 23 channels of ISDN here, works rather well...
> 
> 	-- Rob
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