[SunRescue] Finally got DSL

[Bill Bradford]

On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 11:56:18PM -0800, Paul Khoury wrote:
> So, is ISDL really ISDN, or not really?  Since it's $100/mo, 
> there's no ISDN fee,
> just one flat rate then?  I know ISDN likes to charge by the minute.
> Paul

ISDN is either flat-rate, or charge-by-minute, depending on where you
live and your telco.  Here in Texas (as well as Oklahoma), its flat-rate.

IDSL is basically "ISDN over plain copper pair" - ISDN signalling, but it
only uses the plain copper pair instead of requiring the special conditioned
digital line.  Therefore, its cheaper to provide than ISDN (only needs a
copper pair instead of the digital line, no repeaters, etc), and so IDSL 
usually ends up being cheaper (and a little faster, if your equipment
will do 144K instead of 128K) than "normal" ISDN.

Bill

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