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Date:      Wed, 20 Mar 1996 12:22:33 -0500
From:      dennis@etinc.com (dennis)
To:        Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ISDN: "modem" or board? (Was: Microsoft "Get ISDN"?)
Message-ID:  <199603201722.MAA05607@etinc.com>

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>dennis says:
>>> Well, I've been away from the list for a few days, and so much has
>>> come in that I don't think it would make sense to respond to each
>>> message individually, so here's a summary:
>>>
>>> 1.  Speed of a connection.  Some people say "the bottleneck is the B
>>> channel, so you can use async instead".
>>
>> This is the funniest thing I've ever heard......LOL
>
>Hmm.  From that comment, I don't know if you're agreeing with me or
>not.  

I'm not.

>Certainly the part you quote didn't come across well: what I was
>trying to say was
>
>   Some people say "the bottleneck is the B channel, so using async as
>   well doesn't add any further load".
>

This is just as funny.....

>I'll stick to that.  Using async to connect to an ISDN B channel is a
>dinosaur.

64kbs is 64kbs. OF COURSE its the bottlenect, but saying it doesnt
matter what you run over it is nonsense.

dennis
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