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- From: kudzu@netcom.com (Michael Sierchio)
- Subject: Re: ISDN Is Coming
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.201046.3195@netcom.com>
- Keywords: ISDN packet 64k multiplex modem obsolete
- Organization: True Love, and Home-Grown Tomatoes
- References: <1993Jan22.184217.8922@netcom.com>
- Distribution: ba
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 20:10:46 GMT
- Lines: 16
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- In article <1993Jan22.184217.8922@netcom.com>
- pascal@netcom.com (The Ghost In The Machine) writes:
- >
- >Home service evaluates to two channels - presumably but not necessarily
- >voice and data - for less than the cost of two lines today. Each channel
- >is 64kb ... which makes 9600 baud look like a slow crawl, and incidentally
- >may make such modems somewhat obsolete.
-
- Nonsense -- it depends on what the service costs, what equipment you have
- to buy, and what the per-packet charge is -- also, a subrate ISDN connection
- doesn't offer any guaranteed _throughput_ -- 64kb is the connect rate.
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