Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 02:29:58 +0100 (CET) From: Marc Schneiders <marc@oldserver.demon.nl> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Julian Stacey <jhs@muc.de>, freebsd-isdn@freebsd.org Subject: Re: free slow channel Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002120226280.80433-100000@propro.oldserver.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <20000212105055.F89378@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 10 February 2000 at 16:33:15 +0000, Julian Stacey wrote: > > A friend told me in [last weekend's (5&6 Feb 2000)?] Suddeutsche Zeitung > > `Computer & Co' supplement, it reported that, as of 9/2000 Deutsche Telekom > > would offer free continuous ISDN connection at low bandwidth. > > I presume this is buried inside the 16K D channel, > > I hope it's not tied into their own ISP service, but is generic, > > Anyone know more ? If I find out more I'll post. > > I don't know about Germany, but I do know that another European > carrier is experimenting with this idea. I've been asked not to > reveal which, though if you have been following the FreeBSD lists you > should have seen the message and noticed what is going on. > Please, give us a hint, someone. I suppose it won't be my country, where the former state-owned telephone company still has a monopoly on local calls. We pay $1.50 an hour for internet during office hours (which are from 8 to 8 hours for this purpose). If, it is us (NL=Netherlands=Holland), it might be nice to know asap to start finding ways to set up things... > > Apart from trickle feed for list mail etc, another example of use > > maybe: Have one's site on internet all the time @ low speed, & > > hack/hang a detector on the ftpd & httpd log file writing routines, > > scan for interesting domains, & dial out via i4b if the client > > request was coming from domains you'r prepared to pay telekom > > charges for. > > When I was living in Germany, I was very interested in D-channel ISDN > for DNS lookups and such, which frequently caused significant cost > (one unit per lookup). I fixed that the obvious way, of course, with > an off-site DNS primary. It might be interesting for mail delivery as > well, though. > > Does anybody have an idea how fast D-channel ISDN would be? I'd > expect that you could get a significant portion of the 16 kb/s, so it > wouldn't be *that* slow. > > Greg > -- > Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > See complete headers for address and phone numbers > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message > -- Marc Schneiders marc@venster.nl http://zelf.net marc@oldserver.demon.nl propro 2:26am up 4 days, 4:37, load average: 2.57 2.35 2.24 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message
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