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From: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Leased line options?
Date: 05 May 1997 20:50:45 +0200
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In article <5kkmlf$j84@news.mel.aone.net.au> nigel@palms.nq.net (Nigel
Gorry) writes:

> Can anyone point me in the right direction for a leased line network
> connection between 2 FreeBSD machines?
>
> I use my FreeBSD (2.2.1) machine at home as a router and I'm sick of
> paying for local calls, so I want to find out what is available to
> use over a leased line for a distance of 1 kilometre (0.6 mile)...
> ISDN is too expensive (about 10 times the cost of a leased line)

Any leased line modem.  Over that distance, you should be be able to
run at least 2Mbps, if you want to pay that much for modems.  (About
$2k in modems, I'd guess.)  Or you can run 28.8k for about $100 in
modems :)

Eivind.