Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 13:37:21 +1100 (EST) From: michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au> To: max@underdog.maxie.com (Max Goof) Cc: witr@rwwa.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Another cool hack with FreeBSD... Message-ID: <199601180237.NAA04076@asstdc.scgt.oz.au> 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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Max Goof writes: > > I was wondering about load balancing several lines? [ .. ] > 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). Not all countries have this price-ratio. In Australia, a residential phone line can be had for $A11/month where ISDN works out at ~$A2.5k/year for a point-to-point connection (more for demand-dialling). These costs are in addition to the "access charge" that an ISP would want. With Telstra Internet, access at 28k8 is a flat $A500/month. ISDN is a _minimum_ of $A2k/month for _one_ _unused_ 64k channel. Use it, and that can reach $A9k/month .. I know, I have one :-( Their pricing is available for viewing at http://www.aarnet.edu.au/aarnet/pricelist.html. Multi-link protocols would help enormously in this country, if only to force Telstra to be more reasonable about their ISDN pricing, michael
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