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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!fu-berlin.de!news.mathworks.com!gatech!news.emf.net!overload.lbl.gov!gracie.lbl.gov!jin From: jin@gracie.lbl.gov (Jin Guojun[ITG]) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ISDN and FreeBSD Date: 3 Oct 1995 23:18:58 GMT Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Lines: 17 Message-ID: <44sgd2$rmb@overload.lbl.gov> References: <44k7pi$mt3@agate.berkeley.edu> <44pa9j$nrm@tzlink.j51.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gracie.lbl.gov In article <44pa9j$nrm@tzlink.j51.com>, Louis Epstein <lepslog@j51.com> wrote: >Luigi Semenzato (luigi@cs.berkeley.edu) wrote: >: Is anybody connecting their FreeBSD box to the world using ISDN? > >: How does a single ISDN B line (56Kb) compare with a compressed >: 28.8Kb modem? (A compression factor of 2 is not unreasonable >: on uncompressed data). > I used 14.4Kb modem (19.2) with SLIP, but not 28.8. Comparing with a single ISDN B line (56Kb) , it is much slower. ISDN is better but costs more. -- /-------------- Jin Guojun ------------ v ---- Internet: g_jin@lbl.gov ----\ | Imaging & Distributed Computing | Usenet: ucbvax!g_jin@lbl.gov | | Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory | Bitnet: -- | | 50B-2239, Berkeley, CA 94720 - jin%george.lbl.gov@Csa3.LBL.Gov |