From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 28 18:16:33 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA29747 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 18:16:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nanguo.chalmers.com.au (gateway.chalmers.com.au [203.1.96.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA29725 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 18:16:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@chalmers.com.au) Received: from chalmers.com.au (carbon.chalmers.com.au [203.1.96.26]) by nanguo.chalmers.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA14168 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 12:15:04 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <36B11DB7.65B31E64@chalmers.com.au> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 12:32:23 +1000 From: Robert Chalmers Reply-To: robert@chalmers.com.au Organization: chalmers.com.au X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: zh-CN,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd Subject: Re: Next Question. Which is better. 64K ISDN, or 56K/33.6 POTS ? References: <36B0ECEB.5AA38F20@chalmers.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Well, having done the sums. I'm in Australia by the way, a permanent ISDN > connection just doesn't seem worth it, not for 64K anyway. No way can I afford > 128K. A 64K ISDN link would cost $1000 to set up, and on average $350 to $400 a month to run. Not to mention a couple of K for a router. The telcos really encourage usage in this country there's no doubt. Thanks for the helpful comments by the way. Interesting. Robert -- http://www.chalmers.com.au. Publications From China in 24 different languages. English, French, German, Russian, Arabic, Spanish, Chinese, Burmese, Bengali, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Persian, Swahili, Sinhalese, Thai, Tamil, Urdu, Vietnamese. China Books for CIBTC, Beijing. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message