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Re: [telecom] ISDN's days are numbered: What should you do?

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In article <O8SdnfjNCtEMEhP_nZ2dnUU7-LHNnZ2d@giganews.com>,
Doug McIntyre <merlyn@dork.geeks.org> wrote:

>We always did 128k bonded connections with no issues. No mystery here.
>The biggest problem was the customer equipment. Most of it sucked
>hard.

In the early part of my career, I supported ISDN connections for staff
and faculty in my lab.  This was before widespread cable ISP access
and overbuilding, but Bell Atlantic (as then was) had a special tariff
that allowed universities to get unmetered ISDN BRI lines installed at
employees' homes.  We used Ascend equipment to terminate a PRI in our
building, which also supported model dial-up.  Normally we'd use a
smaller Ascend box (smaller than my current cable modem!) on the
residential end, and we'd configure it to nail up both B channels 24x7
and give each user a subnet.

We were still doing this in 2001 when I bought my condo, so I was
probably one of the only residential ISDN customers in my town.  The
special rate was detariffed around 2003 so I had the former ISDN pair
ported to Speakeasy for ADSL service.  Shortly thereafter, we made the
decision to stop supporting our own dial-in and retired the PRI and
modems.  (It took only a few years after that to get to the point
where employees were simply expected to pay for their own Internet
connectivity, rather than getting reimbursed for it -- likewise cell
phones.)

-GAWollman

-- 
Garrett A. Wollman    | "Act to avoid constraining the future; if you can,
wollman@bimajority.org| act to remove constraint from the future.  This is
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my employers.         | - Graydon Saunders, _A Succession of Bad Days_ (2015)

***** Moderator's Note *****

My apologies to Garrett: this was supposed to have been published last
week, but it got stuck in a holding file for some reason.

Bill Horne
Moderator

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ISDN's days are numbered: What should you do? [telecom] Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> - 2022-05-19 13:05 +0000
  Re: ISDN's days are numbered: What should you do? [telecom] "Marco Moock" <mo01@posteo.de> - 2022-05-19 17:49 +0200
    Re: ISDN's days are numbered: What should you do? [telecom] "Grant Taylor" <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2022-05-20 17:36 -0600
  Re: ISDN's days are numbered: What should you do? [telecom] Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> - 2022-05-21 16:36 +0000
    Re: [telecom] ISDN's days are numbered: What should you do? Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> - 2022-05-23 02:41 +0000
      Re: [telecom] ISDN's days are numbered: What should you do? "Fred Goldstein" <invalid@see.sig.telecom-digest.org> - 2022-05-23 08:39 -0400
        Re: [telecom] ISDN's days are numbered: What should you do? "Doug McIntyre" <merlyn@dork.geeks.org> - 2022-05-25 15:20 -0500
          Re: [telecom] ISDN's days are numbered: What should you do? Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> - 2022-05-29 19:21 +0000
            Re: [telecom] ISDN's days are numbered: What should you do? "Garrett Wollman" <wollman@bimajority.org> - 2022-05-29 22:11 +0000
          Re: [telecom] ISDN's days are numbered: What should you do? "Garrett Wollman" <wollman@bimajority.org> - 2022-05-27 19:53 +0000
      Re: [telecom] ISDN's days are numbered: What should you do? "Grant Taylor" <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2022-05-23 10:36 -0600
    Re: [telecom] ISDN's days are numbered: What should you do? "Fred Goldstein" <invalid@see.sig.telecom-digest.org> - 2022-05-22 12:11 -0400
      Re: ISDN's days are numbered: What should you do? "David" <wb8foz@panix.com> - 2022-05-28 16:12 -0400
        Re: ISDN's days are numbered: What should you do? Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> - 2022-05-29 20:59 +0000
      Re: [telecom] ISDN's days are numbered: What should you do? Bill Horne <malassQRMimilation@gmail.com> - 2022-05-29 20:51 +0000
        ISDN's days are numbered: What should you do? "David" <wb8foz@panix.com> - 2022-05-30 08:50 -0400
        Re: [telecom] ISDN's days are numbered: What should you do? "John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> - 2022-05-29 22:24 +0000
        Re: [telecom] ISDN's days are numbered: What should you do? "Grant Taylor" <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2022-05-29 15:47 -0600
        Re: [telecom] ISDN's days are numbered: What should you do? "Garrett Wollman" <wollman@bimajority.org> - 2022-05-30 22:53 +0000
  Re: ISDN's days are numbered: What should you do? [telecom] "Michael Trew" <michael.trew@att.net> - 2022-05-20 23:40 -0400

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