From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Feb 22 8:35:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from velvet.sensation.net.au (tunnel0-velvet-brunswick.sensation.net.au [203.20.114.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F6DB37B6AB for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 08:35:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rowan@sensation.net.au) Received: from localhost (rowan@localhost) by velvet.sensation.net.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id DAA28193 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 03:35:25 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from rowan@sensation.net.au) X-Authentication-Warning: velvet.sensation.net.au: rowan owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 03:35:23 +1100 (EST) From: Rowan Crowe To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bandwidth In-Reply-To: <20000222082537.44252@rdrop.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org mOn Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Alan Batie wrote: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 03:51:40PM +0800, Craig Beasland wrote: > > If we purchase a frame relay connection, plug in a Cisco 2501 router, will > > that provide us with a drop in replacement for our existing router? > > I would (and did) get the ET Inc sync card. It works great, and would > just be an upgrade to your existing router. I have a Pentium 133 routing > a T1 with 200-300kbps (occasionally peaking at full T1) of traffic and > it's mostly idle. Just a quick note to point out that the original poster was from Australia - we don't have T1's here. :-) We have this strange thing called DDS Fastway which offers bandwidth between 64k and 1984k in 64k increments, or good old ISDN, or a 2Mbit megalink. All at horribly large Tel$tra prices, of course - a 64k ISDN semi perm link calling within 25km costs about $AUD270 a month, which is roughly $US160/month. That's excluding any content, that is just the low level link at the "A" end. Grumble, grumble, grumble. ... Sorry, got a little carried away, I go all green with envy when I hear how cheap p-t-p links are in other countries. (Don't buy stuff direct from other countries unless you are 100% sure it's compatible with your local telco interfaces!) Cheers. -- Rowan Crowe http://www.rowan.sensation.net.au/ Sensation Internet Services http://info.sensation.net.au/ Melbourne, Australia Phone: +61-3-9388-9260 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message