Speaking of ISDN, how many people, can afford to have a personal ISDN line in there house? And then afford to connect to something/someone else on a next to permanent basis monthly?
As I write this message I'm in the last day of my ISDN service for now. When I was doing independent consulting work I installed ISDN at my office. This was to facilitate connectivity to work in California from Minnesota. After taking a job working for a company locally in Minneapolis I succumbed to the temptation of installing ISDN at my home and moved my Combinet router home. I won't deny that I'll be giving up considerable convenience since the ISDN connection has the ability to come up quickly and automatically as I send packets to external destinations (that's in theory, your mileage can vary considerably). But the price per month is ridiculous for the marginal improvement in connectivity I get over my U of M account that only costs me about $100 per year. For the price I'm paying for ISDN Internet connectivity I could buy 32 meg of memory or a gigabyte drive every month. The driving force in my decision is the continuing improvement in modem speeds. When I started with ISDN, my modem speed was 9600 and plenty finicky at that. Now you can get 33.6 modems for less than $200. _________________ Steve Bryan sbryan@gofast.net