From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 17 19:06:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA01059 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 19:06:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from underdog.maxie.com (maxie.com [199.250.231.28]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA01053 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 19:06:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from max@localhost) by underdog.maxie.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA18871; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 22:04:59 -0500 Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 22:04:58 -0500 (EST) From: James Robertson To: michael butler cc: witr@rwwa.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Another cool hack with FreeBSD... In-Reply-To: <199601180237.NAA04076@asstdc.scgt.oz.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thu, 18 Jan 1996, michael butler wrote: > 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 :-( Ouch. ISDN at T-1 prices for here. I had no idea the prices varied by that much. > Multi-link protocols would help enormously in this country, if only to force > Telstra to be more reasonable about their ISDN pricing, But If it were added to FreeBSD, would there be a provider willing to implement it at thier end? Unless both ends of the link did it, you'd only get better throughput in one direction. I would suspect a new company that offered such a service would do very well against the competition though. :-) James Robertson Treetop Internet Services