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Xref: sserve comp.sys.powerpc:32875 comp.sys.intel:30360 comp.unix.bsd:15976 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:8041 comp.unix.sys5.r4:9115 comp.unix.misc:15706 comp.os.linux.development:22845 comp.os.linux.misc:34056 comp.os.386bsd.development:3077 comp.os.386bsd.misc:5081 comp.os.misc:3722 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!hedunx!hedunx!not-for-mail From: hartr@hedunx.hedland.edu.au (Robert Hart) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.intel,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.misc,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.misc Subject: Re: X on dial-in Followup-To: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.intel,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.misc,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.misc Date: 25 Jan 1995 02:11:14 +0800 Organization: Hedland College Lines: 65 Message-ID: <3g3fs2$pib@hedunx.hedland.edu.au> References: <3f44s2$jqm@maverick.maverick.tad.eds.com> <790508225snz@apis.demon.co.uk> <D2rC7p.Lx@kerberos.demon.co.uk> <3fv9sg$8dp@villa.fc.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: hedunx.hedland.edu.au X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] KevinTX (kevintx@primus.paranoia.com) wrote: : Anthony Lovell (alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk) wrote: : : Gordon L. Scott (Gordon@apis.demon.co.uk) wrote: : : : BTW, here it's also known as "Innovations Subscribers Don't Need" :-) : : or : : It Still Does Nothing : : :) : For those of you in the UK, ISDN is alive and well in Austin, Texas. : I've had 128kbps for 7 months now.. and at only $70/US including all : taxes (the FCC has a rather large tax on ISDN for some reason). That's : dirt cheap for high speed transmission over normal phone lines and with : the ability to add and subtract channels on demand to meet your bandwidth : needs, etc. Deployment around the rest of Texas is in progress. Hmm - it's very interesting following this thread that most US people seem to think that ISDN is not worth much or is generally not available. I have been planning an private voice/data WAN for some 6 months now here in Australia and I now have just heard that the ISDN Microlink connections I need will be installed at the last of our three sites in mid-March this year. Not big news you thinl - well one of the sites is Perth (the capital city of Western Australia, where ISDN services have been available for some years now). This site will provide a break out of (initially 6) voice lines, providing local call access to our most frequently called STD location. The second site, (here in Port Hedland) has had ISDN available for over 12 months. Port Hedland is in the remote, desert Pilbara region of WA and bosts a population of 12,000. The third site is our remote campus at Newman - a mining town with a population of just under 5000! Newman is 450 km distant from Porthedland - which is 1800 km distant from Perth. To give you a feel for the sparseness of our population, WA is significantly larger than Texas, with a population of some 2 million - of which Perth itself represents just over 1 million! ISDN is now available right up the western coast of Australia (Port Hedland is only just beyond half way up from Perth). It looks like Australia is leading the way here - and by the way, the equipment we are putting in is Australian designed and made and provides (on a single 64kbps channel) 6 simultaneous voice lines and a guaranteed minimum data channel of 16 kbps (the voice calls are compressed 8:1). As the device uses frame relay, it's possible to squeeze data into "silences" that occur in phone conversations providing "overbooking" of capacity! The data capacity will be used by us for WAN connectivity between our remote campuses and a full Internet connection - the devices also act as IP Routers too! The equipment is made by Scitech by the way...called the FastLane F3 or F5. (I can provide an email address if you wish to make contact). -- Robert Hart hartr@hedunx.hedland.edu.au Voice: +61 (0)91 72 0429 Fax: +61 (0)91 72 3560 Hedland College, PMB 1, South Hedland WA 6722 Australia