Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 20:39 03/12/1998 -0800, Jim Brick wrote: >At home, I use ISDN. $30/month. Period. It's two 64k B channels + one 16k D >channel. Basically, the equivalent of about four phone lines running in >parallel at with 56k analog modems. For $30/mo. I don't pay any other fees. >For normal e-mail, only one 64k channel is used. On downloads or large www >images, both channels connect. My computer and network at home is up and >online all of the time. 24 hours a day. I don't pay an timed connect rate. I am far from such a fancy setup. My phoneline is running through trees and woods, coming up to our house through a huge chinese palm in front of it, into an old, strange connector box, and into a 14.400 modem... When it's windy, and when the palm starts moving, the connection is interrupted quite frequently. No use sending e-mails... pray for wind you disgruntled LUGgers! I don't have TV, but good books, a wonderful Irish wood stove, and a lot of fine wine in the waiting time. The computer is a completely outdated, portable PC, with a blacked out LCD screen, 4 mb of RAM, and a full 100 mb HD... Strange enough, it's efficient! You understand better now why I don't have any web site, or look at yours... I pay about $16/mo for the connection, and as usual in Europe, a per second connect rate, which is normal local tax, about $2.30/hour day time, and $1 during the night, with a special internet reduction arrangement (+$6/mo). Oddmund