From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 17 17:42:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA26083 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 17:42:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.109.160]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA26077 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 17:42:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id TAA21580; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 19:40:29 -0600 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199601180140.TAA21580@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: Another cool hack with FreeBSD... To: max@underdog.maxie.com (Max Goof) Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 19:40:28 -0600 (CST) Cc: witr@rwwa.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Max Goof" at Jan 17, 96 01:53:14 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > A few points you might want to consider here, based on how we are set up... > > At least in our area, two normal phone lines would cost only $3 > less than we pay for flat-rate ISDN (About $55 a month). As long as you're not paying per-minute charges. Ameritech charges businesses per-minute connect charges for outgoing ISDN calls. Ameritech does not charge per-minute for POTS calls. With the several hundred dollars a month that a dual-channel ISDN link would cost, I could easily justify a dozen POTS lines on each end just in per-minute savings. If I were transferring text (compressible data) on a 4 line 28.8K setup, I could approach 230.4kbps (57.6 * 4) on my nifty serial gizmo, twice the speed for a third the cost. ISDN doesn't generally do compression. :-) ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847