Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 19:24:20 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: peter@jhome.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Win32 (was:Re: Go SCSI! Big improvement...) Message-ID: <199603170224.TAA18373@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <peter.827016458@jhome.DIALix.COM> from "Peter Wemm" at Mar 16, 96 10:47:38 pm
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> Huh? So, long distance voice is also "evil" because that's time charged > too? Yes. > It sounds to me like you want something that behaves like a leased line > but dont want to pay for it. I didn't know that you had free T1 and 56K > links in the US... Hardly. I want something like a network connection with no one's nose in where my endpoint is for a particular packet or series of packets. If the packets happen to conatin voice data and happen to be going to Japan... well, them's the breaks. > Dont forget, most PRI ISDN links are 2B+D, so you've got two independent 64K > links.. Many ISDN cards are also dual channel, so you can call yourself from > one channel to the other.. :-) US West is (or was) 2D + B. Non-standard ISDN. So no dice. I'd need two lines. > Mind you, you're in a great position over there compared to *.au.. Here, > the phone company owns the NT1, so everything you connect to the S0 bus has > to be "approved", including the software. ie: developing the software > yourself is completely out of the question here. So change your government -- Aussie's have sufferage! 8-) 8-). > This is partly the case here because ISDN is implemented as an "overlay" > network, where the local exchanges do not speak ISDN at all. The exchange > is fitted with a B-mux (B-channel multiplexor) and all the PRI circuits > are carried back to a more central exchange over a 2Meg link. These B-Muxes > are notoriously unreliable and crash at the slightest provacation, taking > you and the other users down with it. Result: they dont *dare* let users > beat them up via custom software. So buy hardware from the US. It's not like we can install it in our service areas for our own use. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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