From: wollman@bimajority.org
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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.
We were still doing this in 2001 when I bought my condo, so I was
probably one of the only residential ISDN customers in my town. The
special rate was detariffed around 2003 so I had the former ISDN pair
ported to Speakeasy for ADSL service. Shortly thereafter, we made the
decision to stop supporting our own dial-in and retired the PRI and
modems. (It took only a few years after that to get to the point
where employees were simply expected to pay for their own Internet
connectivity, rather than getting reimbursed for it -- likewise cell
phones.)
-GAWollman
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My apologies to Garrett: this was supposed to have been published last
week, but it got stuck in a holding file for some reason.
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