DSL Woes

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Sat Jul 21 08:40:24 2001

I'm not sure what the current status is, but back in '95 or so, we had enough
ISDN customers to warrant a server just for them. Our customers certainly
didn't complain back then, since ISDN offered flexibility and performance not
available on a DS0 service costing 5x as much.

I was somewhat surprised, after attempting to get ISDN service here at my house,
as DSL wasn't yet being offered, to learn that Emanuel Stiebler has ISDN at his
somewhat remote mountain home. With all the limits on distance from the C.O.
I'd have been the last to expect to get ISDN service so far from town.

Nevertheless, if you have any questions about ISDN and the quality of service,
I'd say it might be useful to ask him. Everyone else I know who once used ISDN
has gone to DSL or some other level of service. My neighbor has a really
high-bandwidth microwave link to some obscure ISP and he tells me he's getting
the equivalent (in bursts) of DS3 rates. I've yet to visit his newly organized
facility, but with the hardware I've seen him bring in over the past half-year,
I don't doubt his claim.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffrey S. Sharp" <jss_at_subatomix.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 10:20 PM
Subject: RE: DSL Woes


> On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
>
> > ISDN == I'm Still Drinking, Ned...
>
> ISDN == It Still Does Nothing
> ISDN == It Stops the Damn Network
> ISDN == Insanely Slow Download Network
> ISDN == Into Skull Driving Nails
> ISDN == I Still Don't kNow
>
> --
> Jeffrey S. Sharp
> jss_at_ou.edu
>
>
Received on Sat Jul 21 2001 - 08:40:24 BST