On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 11:55:55PM -0400, Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote:
> [5] It's ISDN but without the ISDN tarrifs. I don't pretend to
> understand this myself.
its ISDN signalling over plain copper pair. The reason its so much cheaper
is that the telco doesent have to provide call-handling (144K = the
2 64K B-channels plus the 16K D-channel that normally does call signaling).
Therefore, you can use most semi-decent ISDN TAs for IDSL as well. Its good
at a MUCH longer distance than "normal" DSL, and in some places, is all you'll
be able to get..
I had ISDN till late '98, went to cablemodem for almost a year, then ADSL
till about a month ago, when i switched back to cablemodem (2meg/485k, at
$50/month... put everything behind a Linksys BEFSR "gateway", and all is
well..)
Bill
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Bill Bradford
mrbill_at_mrbill.net
Austin, TX
Received on Sat Jul 21 2001 - 23:28:54 BST