On Sun, 15 Sep 1996 01:31:19 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:

and still get the original 56kbps back out. But if they can, well, yee-hah, ISDN is nearly dead :-) (Not totally dead; the signalling is still useful for some applications, the convenience of two channels on one wire pair is nice, and the fact that people can get 56kbps without Also, can't you add ISDN b-channels ? (I.e. get another 64kps channel) the phone company's help will pressure them into offering ISDN for a lower price in areas where the Phone Company's idea of "all the market will bear" is substantially higher than voice pricing.)

ISDN is more elegant; this sounds like a 'kludge' of sorts. OTOH, we've all seen how well a cheap kludge can do, right? # Chris Adams <adamsc@io-online.com> | http://www.io-online.com/adamsc/adamsc.htp # cadams@acucobol.com | V.M. (619)515-4894 "I have never been able to figure out why anyone would want to play games on a computer in any case when the whole system is a game. Word processing, spreadsheets, telecoms -- it's all a game. And they pay you to play it." -- Duncan Frissell