Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 15:30:31 -0800 (PST) From: kline@tera.com (Gary Kline) To: caj@tower.stc.housing.washington.edu (Craig Johnston) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISDN devices supported? Message-ID: <9602092330.AA24292@tera.com> In-Reply-To: <199602092034.MAA04298@tower.stc.housing.washington.edu> from "Craig Johnston" at Feb 9, 96 12:34:26 pm
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According to Craig Johnston: > > > > > [[ ISDN flames ... ]] > > Possible. Not necessary. Some areas in the US have fixed-rate ISDN. Maybe Austin, TX. (?) > > We recently got this in Seattle, if my source is correct. Every so often > I find myself almost thinking government meddling with the "free market" > isn't always a bad thing. ;) (I think it got rammed down their throats.) > > Of course I think at this point in time ISDN is too little too late. > The bandwidth is kinda pathetic by today's standards. Oh well, that's > what comes from things taking 10 years to get to market and the constant > failure of people to do things 10x as big/fast/whatever as you think you'll > need. Is ISDN gonna make the next upgrade in bandwidth easier than this > one? I think an increase of less than an order of magnitude over the > bandwidth available via POTS is pretty pathetic. 128kbits/sec? Feh. With > the cost of 28.8 modems and regular phone service, it's practically in > "why bother" territory. Is there something I am missing about ISDN? I think you're right on the money. Fifteen or so years` ago I would've given an arm and a leg for today's ISDN bandwidth. Now, I can get close to 30Kbps by modem over a cheap POTS line. Good enough for most things. > > It would seem the cable companies should be jumping all over the opportunity > to provide real bandwidth... they could cream phone companies here, no? > I'm waiting for TCI (cable firm) to bundle local phone with cable and a multi-megabit net link. Throat-cutting has its price, though. Hundreds or thousands of layoffs... . gary kline
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