From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Aug 27 15:39:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from homer.excitech.com.au (homer.excitech.com.au [203.35.80.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7236E14C44 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 15:39:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jordan@excitech.com.au) Received: from frederick (frederick.excitech.com.au [203.35.80.61]) by homer.excitech.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA13881; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 08:43:06 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <000501bef0dc$ff5c1a10$0a00a8c0@frederick> Reply-To: "Jordan Race" From: "Jordan Race" To: Subject: Naieve question Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 08:39:15 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, This is probably only relevant to those here in Australia. I realise this is also not specifically FreeBSD centered, so if anyone could reply privately it would be most appreciated. I am involved with a group that runs a small, non-profit content provision service (mainly hosting). At the moment we have a permenant dial-up connection to Telstra with a router and our own networks etc. We use FreeBSD for all our servers. It has come to the stage to upgrade. As we have 33.6k at the moment, we see little justification in moving to 64k ISDN. What do people believe the best value for money lies in? We are in a country area so Telstra is really our only option - unless someone knows something we don't.. :) My next part is a naieve question - how does it work? For example, at the moment we dial the modem and pay 25c to hold our local call. We then pay the 19c per mb on top of that. With ISDN there are no flat rates? Is our call open permenantly? I know you can do dial on demand with ISDN but what about incoming connections? What about FrameRelay? Any information would be most helpful.. TIA Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message