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Xref: sserve comp.sys.powerpc:40471 comp.sys.intel:37898 comp.unix.bsd:16648 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:8621 comp.unix.sys5.r4:9823 comp.unix.misc:17320 comp.os.linux.development:24427 comp.os.linux.misc:48085 comp.os.386bsd.development:3332 comp.os.386bsd.misc:5702 comp.os.misc:4043 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!news.sprintlink.net!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!newsspool.doit.wisc.edu!news.doit.wisc.edu!news From: "Ken Kriesel, Physical Sciences Lab, UW-Madison" <kkriesel@facstaff.wisc.edu> 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 Date: 19 Jun 1995 16:40:37 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Lines: 15 Message-ID: <3s49a5$1988@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <3f44s2$jqm@maverick.maverick.tad.eds.com> <790508225snz@apis.demon.co.uk> <D2rC7p.Lx@kerberos.demon.co.uk> <3fv9sg$8dp@villa.fc.net> <3s2pes$5f6@sundog.tiac.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: pslmd3.psl.wisc.edu rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly) wrote: > Thank your lucky Texas stars. Here in Framingham, Massachusetts it would > cost me $595 per month to have a 24 hour per day ISDN line that goes directly > to a Cisco router and T1, and $245 per month for ISDN that connects through a > POP to an ISDN that is shared among many users. Never mind the $600-800 > installation charge. These are both flat rate plans through ISPs, a direct > through NYNEX ISDN line would be $1000+ per month with the per minute charges. Now that's an obscenely high charge. Charge rates ought to at most scale with bandwidth, and an ordinary voice channel doesn't cost anything like that much on a per-bandwidth basis. I suppose it will take a while for rational pricing to settle in. (like the old days when you could suddenly get charged a lot more, if modem tones were discovered on your voice line!)