From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 9 17:12:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dsinw.com (dsinw.com [207.149.40.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A17A15018 for ; Sun, 9 May 1999 17:12:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@dsinw.com) Received: (from hamellr@localhost) by dsinw.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) id RAA16121; Sun, 9 May 1999 17:10:53 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 17:10:52 -0700 (PDT) From: rick hamell To: Chuck Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Appropriate choice of ISDN device In-Reply-To: <199905092056.QAA01098@capecod.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 2. Is a packaged EthernetHub/TA (or whatever it's called) cost/effective? In my opinion, it depends on what you need it for. > 3. My ISP charges over $100/month for ISDN (single B channel) access, > more of course if I try for 128Kbps. And BellAtlantic charges > $0.0016/minute (yes, they say 0.16 cents/min.) for B channel use. > So is a TA with an analog port used with a cheap V.90 modem a > good idea? My $20/month covers email and personal webspace as > well as modem access, V.90 included. The ISP says no, they don't > recognize DOSBS, which at least would be end-to-end digital. For a long time I used an V.90 through my Addtran XRT ISDN modem. I had the same problem you did, ISDN access was to expensive, $60/month. What I figured out though is that many of the local places can't limit the connection down to 56k with their digital solutions. So I'm currently dialing out into a standard $19.95/month dial-up account, and it works great. :) Rick ---- "Religion exists because man can't belive that he's nothing more then a random accident." http://www.grendal.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message