From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 17 18:40:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA29448 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 18:40:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from asstdc.scgt.oz.au (root@asstdc.scgt.oz.au [202.14.234.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA29438 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 18:40:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (from imb@localhost) by asstdc.scgt.oz.au (8.6.12/BSD4.4) id NAA04076; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 13:37:22 +1100 From: michael butler Message-Id: <199601180237.NAA04076@asstdc.scgt.oz.au> Subject: Re: Another cool hack with FreeBSD... To: max@underdog.maxie.com (Max Goof) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 13:37:21 +1100 (EST) Cc: witr@rwwa.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Max Goof" at Jan 17, 96 01:53:14 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24beta] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Max Goof writes: > > I was wondering about load balancing several lines? [ .. ] > A few points you might want to consider here, based on how we are set up... > At least in our area, two normal phone lines would cost only $3 > less than we pay for flat-rate ISDN (About $55 a month). Not all countries have this price-ratio. In Australia, a residential phone line can be had for $A11/month where ISDN works out at ~$A2.5k/year for a point-to-point connection (more for demand-dialling). These costs are in addition to the "access charge" that an ISP would want. With Telstra Internet, access at 28k8 is a flat $A500/month. ISDN is a _minimum_ of $A2k/month for _one_ _unused_ 64k channel. Use it, and that can reach $A9k/month .. I know, I have one :-( Their pricing is available for viewing at http://www.aarnet.edu.au/aarnet/pricelist.html. Multi-link protocols would help enormously in this country, if only to force Telstra to be more reasonable about their ISDN pricing, michael