From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jul 5 18:55:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA26903 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 5 Jul 1996 18:55:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pegasus.com (pegasus.com [140.174.243.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA26890 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 1996 18:55:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by pegasus.com (8.6.8/PEGASUS-2.2) id PAA28087; Fri, 5 Jul 1996 15:54:59 -1001 Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 15:54:59 -1001 From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) Message-Id: <199607060155.PAA28087@pegasus.com> In-Reply-To: Chuck Robey "Re: muliport boards - building a PPP dialup server" (Jul 5, 6:52pm) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: hardware@freebsd.org, bsdi-users@bsdi.com Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Subject: Re: muliport boards - building a PPP dialup server [ISDN] } > Yes, today ISDN is expensive. But I heard that in some parts of California } > ISDN costs the same as regular analog phones. This will spread. Things are } > not static, and just as I'm sure the designers of UARTs that couldn't go } > faster than 19200 baud reliably even after problems with earlier ones and the } > relatively low cost of much faster ones, felt that they were doing the best, } > but for analog modems, most good connections these days are at 115, 200 baud. } > } > So while ISDN isn't mainstream today that doesn't mean it won't be soon. } } You're forgetting that while the price of a P6-200 is determined by } technology and competition, the price of telephone service is determined } by the PUC and local political goals. Your prediction is not on } completely firm ground. It might actually happen, but I sure wouldn't } bet on it. Cable has a good chance of blowing ISDN away. Much faster and cheaper. And it will be available in many places this year. More, next. Keep your eye on the cable companies. Richard