Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 02:52:59 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> To: "Mike O'Brien" <obrien@antares.aero.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: ASUS www mirror Message-ID: <6665.797680379@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 12 Apr 95 00:28:05 PDT." <95Apr12.002817pdt.111121-3@aero.org>
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> But it occurs to me to wonder: 1) I must have missed something > but aside from getting 64K instead of 56K, why are we limited to > the same CO? And, more pointedly, 2) Isn't 64K going into a > serial port, even one fitted out with a 16550, an immense load > on the machine compared to running even a cheap Ethernet card > into a Pipeline box? 1. You're not limited to same CO in terms of basic service. But for Pacific Bell at least, and your own regional service may indeed differ, there's a per-minute charge for the line 9am-5pm Monday-Friday. This is aimed at night and weekend users who then get their connect time for free, but this sucks for dedicated service and so what PacBell ALSO has is something they call "business ISDN" which means, essentially, unmetered 24-hour connections for one low price (around $69/month, as I remember). Since WC is my service provider, I pay no fees on top of that! 3. Actually, I don't think the load will be that objectionable. Only empirical evidence will truly satisfy, naturally, but I would still not be at all surprised to find that a good ISDN modem and nice FIFO'd serial card combo do extremely reasonable jobs for the amount of load imposed. Jordan
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