From: malQRMassimilation@gmail.com   
      
   On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 07:53:56PM -0000, Garrett Wollman wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   > Doug McIntyre  wrote:   
   >   
   >> We always did 128k bonded connections with no issues. No mystery   
   >> here.  The biggest problem was the customer equipment. Most of it   
   >> sucked hard.   
   >   
   > In the early part of my career, I supported ISDN connections for staff   
   > and faculty in my lab.  This was before widespread cable ISP access   
   > and overbuilding, but Bell Atlantic (as then was) had a special tariff   
   > that allowed universities to get unmetered ISDN BRI lines installed at   
   > employees' homes.  We used Ascend equipment to terminate a PRI in our   
   > building, which also supported model dial-up.  Normally we'd use a   
   > smaller Ascend box (smaller than my current cable modem!) on the   
   > residential end, and we'd configure it to nail up both B channels 24x7   
   > and give each user a subnet.   
      
   [snip]   
      
   I'm going to have to descend from whatever foothold I used to have on   
   Mount Olympus, and admit that I don't understand how you could "nail   
   up" two bearer channels without disabling the ISDN line's capability   
   to carry phone calls. Were the ISDN lines used only for data service,   
   or could the Bearer channels be divorced while a phone call was in   
   progress?   
      
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