quetwo
That VoIP Guy
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join:2004-09-04
East Lansing, MI
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Re: WiMAX - is this another ISDN
ISDN is still significnetly better technology than whatever else is out there in the United States. The unfortunate problem is that the phone companies saw it as that and got greedy. When they made it too expensive, nobody adpoted it.
If you go to other parts of the world, such as Europe, everybody as ISDN. Hell, even my grandmother had ISDN, with two bonded channels for data 6 years ago. She had no idea what it was, but DT told her that she could be on the phone and internet at once. i think she paid under 50 euros a month for it.
In Europe, you often see DSL over ISDN, with much larger download and upload rates. |
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gaforces
United We Stand, Divided We Fall
join:2002-04-07
Santa Cruz, CA
4 edits | I had ISDN, you could get 64k, when you bonded the 2 channels for the full 128k.
It took a few weeks to get installed (pacbell engineers had to be talked into(reference cavemen and living in the dark ages) doing the install, they said it was too far(dirty lines)) but once it was working it was great, till they started double billing me and charging outrageous amounts for going over, charged by the minute.
I also remember they wanted to charge me full for the 3 weeks I didnt have any service, including a phone.
Then they killed ISDN by coming out with DSL for 100$ cheaper. |
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jdir
join:2001-05-04
Santa Clara, CA | OO wow - 128Kbits !! with that speed, it take a week to download the latest Linux ISO CDs. Wooohooo!! 128Kbits... man, and those Korean/Japan ISP are offering 10Mbits for $19.95 or less? |
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wvcaver
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join:2005-04-17
Millersburg, OH | reply to gaforces
ISDN is dial up on steroids |
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LilYoda
Feline with squirel personality disorder
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join:2004-09-02
Mountains
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Most useless post of the week... 
At the time ISDN was out, it was the fastest speed you could get on a residential access... We're talking 10 to 15 years ago here... DSL did not even exist, much less the current FTTH or FTTN projects.
And YES, at the time, it took me weeks to download the 50 floppies it took to install Slackware Linux 0.99pl13.
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"Money and sex, storage and bandwidth: only too much is ever enough"
Arno Penzias - Former Head of Bell Labs, and Nobel prizewinner |
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