06 Nov 16 17:05, you wrote to me:   
      
    ml>> you don't have to with DSL... both POTS and DSL ride on the same   
      
    SD> From what I understand *DSL (of any type) is uncommon in Europe but I   
   could   
    SD> be wrong in that.  It's more common to use POTS or get fiber.   
      
   i don't know about that but i regularly assist folks over there with the   
   firewall i support and DSL stuffs...   
      
    SD> I'd love an ISDN line for the BBS but CenturyLink wants $300 a month   
    SD> for it...   
      
   no, you really don't want ISDN these days... the charges for calls outside   
   your ranges are especially expensive... but if you really have to have ISDN    
   then get your local utilities commision involved and get them to make the   
   telcos charge the same rates for them that they do for a single POTS line...   
   that's only two numbers at most 64k each but more likely 56k due to bit   
   robbing by the telco to get another connection or two out of the bits they've   
   stolen...   
      
   but seriously, ISDN cannot hold a candle to DSL... i've got 3Meg down 768K up   
   here for only $40/month (IIRC)... ISDN is only 64k in each direction plus the   
   metered range charges... one of my client ran up a $40000 bill for one month   
   calling from southern pines to raleigh because they insisted on having it   
   connecting even though metered distance charges were involved... if they had   
   been able to wait a week for the local connection to come online, they would   
   not have had anything more than their base bill of $100 to deal with...   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
   Always Mount a Scratch Monkey   
   Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it   
   wrong...   
   ... If it wasn't for C, we would be using BASI, PASAL and OBOL!   
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