Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 10:13:34 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Another cool hack with FreeBSD... Message-ID: <199601180913.KAA24577@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960117215029.14064J-100000@underdog.maxie.com> from "James Robertson" at Jan 17, 96 10:04:58 pm
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As James Robertson wrote: > > > 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 :-( > Ouch. ISDN at T-1 prices for here. I had no idea the prices varied by that > much. If you really wanna know about high prices, come to Europe. ``Flat fee'' is something totally unknown here, and since you have to pay for each ISDN data channel like for any normal phone call, it's no wonder that channel bonding is not of too much interest, at least for private users. (The fees in Germany have been drastically increased by this year, with a very complicated scheme. Basically, a regular local area call is now around DM 5 / hour.) OTOH, the German Telekom has been massively pushing the ISDN technique recently. After looking a bit more into the odds and ends of tele- communications technology, it's quite clear to me why. While more and more people tend to have two phone lines (one for voice, one for fax and/or modem), this would cost them two wire-pairs with the standard technology. With ISDN, their costs are halved since they only need one wire-pair to provide more than adequate functionality. The ratio improves for corporate users that require dozens of lines in parallel, by using a PRI channel, they replace 30 wire-pairs by just two of them. And local area wiring is expensive. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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