Yup; the Internet is screwed up.
Jon Lewis
jlewis at lewis.org
Sun Jun 12 00:53:06 UTC 2011
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Jeroen van Aart wrote:
> I wonder, what's wrong with dialup through ISDN? You get speed that is about
> the same as low end broadband I'd say. And I think it'd be available at these
> locations where DSL is not.
No you don't. BRI with 2 B channels bonded is 128kbit/s. Does anyone
offer DSL that slow? I just had 25mbit DSL installed...though 15 of it is
reserved for IPTV service.
Have you heard the joke...ISDN = I Still Don't kNow? For whatever reason,
BRI service is something the US telcos apparently never really wanted to
sell...perhaps because it might have cut into their T1 business.
Initially, with BellSouth you could get flat-rate BRI. It didn't take
long for them to limit it to 200 hours/month and then charge per minute
for overages. At 128kbit/s going flat out all day, you can transfer just
a bit more than 1GB.
Also, just the ISDN line from the telco will probably cost a couple times
what DSL from the telco would cost if you could get it...and if you're in
a rural area where you can't get cable or DSL, I wouldn't hold your breath
for ISDN.
> My low end home DSL connection has similar bandwidth.
How slow a DSL connection do you have?
> With regards to the writer's main gripe, if your telecommute work typically
> consists of ssh sessions and email then even y'olde dialup will do just fine.
For SSH sessions, ISDN is fine and the latency is much lower than analog
dialup. At home, I went from analog dialup at 14.4kbps, to 28.8/33.6kbps,
to 128k ISDN (a flat rate line), to 1.5mbit DSL, to [I don't even remember
the speed] several mbit cable, to now 10mbit DSL. I made sure before
moving 3 years ago to where I am now that there was at least one broadband
internet provider servicing the area. 3 years later, there are now two
choices. If your work/life depends on internet access (particularly high
speed) and you move somewhere without checking on its availability, you're
not too bright.
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