From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 28 16:18:02 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA15975 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 16:18:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA15928 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 16:17:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA27672; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 10:47:53 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) id KAA11629; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 10:47:51 +1030 (CST) Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 10:47:51 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Robert Chalmers Cc: freebsd Subject: Re: Next Question. Which is better. 64K ISDN, or 56K/33.6 POTS ? Message-ID: <19990129104750.P8473@freebie.lemis.com> References: <36B0ECEB.5AA38F20@chalmers.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <36B0ECEB.5AA38F20@chalmers.com.au>; from Robert Chalmers on Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 09:04:11AM +1000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 29 January 1999 at 9:04:11 +1000, Robert Chalmers wrote: >> From a webservice point of view, which is better. ISDN, or 56/33.6 Modem over > POTS. with PPP on both. ISDN, of course. It gives you 64 kb/s in both directions. I'm not sure, however, whether isdn4bsd offers compression. Without it, you're limited to a maximum of about 8 kB/s. > Given the network congestion these days, it seems to me there is not > a lot of advantage in going to 64K ISDN, especially given its cost > in Australia. Now that's another matter. > What do others think. Is there a solid technical reason for going to > ISDN? yes? no? I have a gut feeling that ISDN may be a waste of > money. When I lived in Germany, I used ISDN, and I was very satisfied with it. On returning to Australia, I was faced with the same decision that you are. I chose analogue POTS, and was not as satisfied, but I'm spending a *whole* lot less money. Basically, as long as Telstra sells ISDN like another way of making lots of money, there's no reason to use it. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message