Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/03

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Subject: [Leica] [off topic] Not so Urgent: Long Distance Charge for Internet?
From: Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 20:39:49 -0800

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.

Jim

At 02:26 PM 12/4/98 +1000, you wrote:
>On 3 Dec 98, at 17:27, Jim Brick wrote:
>
>> Well, that might be semi useful if people used only modems. But I haven't
>> used a "modem" is several years. At least over here, ISDN, Digital Cable
>> modems, and a plethora of other DIGITAL computer network interfaces are
>> becoming the prevailing technology.
>
>Jim,
>
>Given your response I would assume that you have chosen to pay a higher 
>line connection rate using data orientated services, the original post
referred 
>to using PSTN dial in services for data purposes. In a brief internet
search I 
>can not find any articles to substantiate the claims however.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Rob Studdert
>HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA
>Tel +61-2-9554-4110
>Fax +61-2-9554-9259
>UTC(GMT)  +10 Hours
>audiob@ozemail.com.au
>