Re: considering covad

["L. V. Lammert" <lvl@omnitec.net>]

At 12:26 PM 1/27/2004, you wrote:

>Don't waste money on IDSL.  Get an ISDN line and pay somebody (like
>apci.net) for dual-channel ISDN dial-up.  It's just as fast, and it
>will cost at least $50 less than that per month for the line+service.

Huh?? ISDN = $90/mo for 24/7 (2B, SWBell), .. + at least $35/mo port charge 
is a lot more than our IDSL price of $109/mo. Also, IDSL = 144 Kbps (2B+D), 
ISDN = 128 Kbps max (2B).

>At least with plain old ISDN you can do fun stuff with your phones.

Good point, .. but to play with the phones you would have to take down at 
least one B channel.

         Lee

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    Leland V. Lammert                                lvl@omnitec.net
       Chief Scientist                         Omnitec Corporation
   Network/Internet Consultants              www.omnitec.net
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