Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 00:07:55 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org> To: Peter Korsten <peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl> Cc: Wm Brian McCane <root@bmccane.uit.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISDN Modems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970917235804.1734B-100000@counterintelligence.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <19970917012854.13329@grendel.IAEhv.nl>
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To be honest with you I thought about this for a few months, If you in the US the best solution is something like an Ascend Pipeline 50 router (no firewall) ($599), with a crossover (included) to an inexpensive NE2000 card ($40). This is about twice as expensive as a Motorola Bitsurfer (~$300) and doesn't have the analog ports (but if you want isdn for making voice calls your a wacko anyway). The reason I was willing to pay the extra $300 were: A. ping time to peer with router = 30ms, B. ping time to peer with Serial based internal card or external = 100ms (If youv'e ever played quake on the internet you know just how much difference this makes) C. Extensive automatic connect abilities on the router (which i don't use) which will save you $$$ if you pay per minute usage charges, D. Really, Really much easier to set up --- though I read the book to make sure about some of the security features. E. I've had atleast two people (who got ISDN lines before me) tell me if they did it again they would of spilled the cash for the router over the TAs. It's kind of like the difference between SCSI and IDE. > However, this is only good for Europe. I don't know the exact > reasons, but I think that external ISDN adapters are more popular > on the other side of the Big Pond, at least with those capable of > developing driver code. So I guess the question for you is: which > serial card and which ISDN adapter (please don't call them modems, > that's the whole idea of ISDN: you no longer need to modulate/demod- > ulate the data) am I going to use? > > - Peter >
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