[geeks] News server access

[David Cantrell]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 10:56:59PM -0400, joshua d boyd wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 07:15:42PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> > > What makes a 128k DSL or fractional T1 more suitable than ISDN?
> > 
> > ISDN is dial-up.
> 
> And that is a problem because?...

because you have to hold the connection up from your end all the time -
expensive.  I know that *some* ISPs will bring it up from their end if
necessary, but then you have two problems:
  call setup charges are often of the order of several $small_currency_units,
    and so many very short calls will be *more* expensive than holding the
    line up all the time (BTDTPaidThePhoneBill);
  call setup is slow, so users get a bad experience from your site

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