Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 19:40:28 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: max@underdog.maxie.com (Max Goof) Cc: witr@rwwa.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Another cool hack with FreeBSD... Message-ID: <199601180140.TAA21580@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960117132445.13675A-100000@underdog.maxie.com> from "Max Goof" at Jan 17, 96 01:53:14 pm
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> 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
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