[Shotimes] (OT) ISDN vs Dial-up

[David Rosicke]

ISDN is 128K upload and download.  It can be MUCH farthur from the Phone Company than DSL unless the phone company puts in an extended DSL network (extended DSLAMs from remote fiber DMARKs - some times referred to as SLICKs).

Advantages:  It is 100% availible bandwidth 128K v.s. Dial-Up which can only reach 56K in theory.  It connects immediately v.s. waiting for dial tone on a POTS line.  Your ISP can do dial-back to you if you want to save money - Your dual-line phone bill can be as inexpensive as $60.-/month including the ISP costs with the right ISP.  Think about it as a felixible 128K Frame-Relay circuit.

Disadvantages:  Most phone companies offer it with 200 hours free time then charge $.01 each minute for all time above that.

One fellow from Germany I spoke to a few years ago summed up American phone companies lack of foresight with ISDN (which is extremely popular in Europe!) is:

I Still Don't kNow

:-)

On a side note:  Hayes pioneered v.42 compression over ISDN in '96.  IF you find an ISP who supports it, you can run V.42 and get 4:1 compression - 460K upload AND download speeds after overhead considerations!

Dave R.


Message: 9
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 23:07:29 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] (OT) ISDN vs Dial-up
From: "Carl Prochilo" <gr8sho@prochilo.myserver.org>
To: shotimes@autox.team.net
Reply-To: gr8sho@adelphia.net

I think your ISDN specs are right, but DSL can vary.  Bellsouth for
instance offers various tiers of service.  Their newest DSL Extreme
service is (up to) 3 Mbps down, 384 Kbps up which compares well with
cable.  A friend of mine just got this and they threw in a static IP 
too.
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Cheers,
Carl Prochilo
92 Ultra Red Crimson

On Sun, August 22, 2004 10:55 pm, Mark Mucher said:
> I thought ISDN was 128 kbps vs. 1500 kbps (down/256 up)) for DSL...
>
> Mark