Re: tlug-digest V1 #394

["A.Tomita,Jr." <Alberto@example.com>]

In message <199701111704.RAA29484@example.com> you wrote:
> You can also receive incoming calls on the other B-Channel
> so that the rest of your family members can talk on the phone while
> you do research on Linux over the net.  The TAs are getting to
> be around 20,000 to 30,000 yen so they are comparable to a modem.
> Installation charge of an ISDN line are the same as an analog phone line.

And you can also use the two channels bundled in a MPPP connection
to get 128kbps. 

(Craig: I gave up on trying to buy a Ascend P75 in the US. It was too
 risky, and in the end I found a good bargain in Akihabara. Software
 Japan went bankrupt and their equipment has been sold incredibly cheap.
 I bought a "Tsu-Na-Gu TA1", that is the OEM of a Zyxel OmniTA 128.
 Paid "ichi-man", less than US$100 at the current exchange rate. If anyone
 is interested, the place was "DOS/V Oasis" Soto-kanda 4-6-7 Takada Bldg. 1F
 tel 03-3254-4391).

About the USR x2 technology, I read somewhere that to get the 56 kbps
you have to be connected to a USR Total Control access server, limiting
the choice of ISPs (the ones listed in that press release are probably
the only ones using it).

-tomita.

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Alberto Tomita, Jr.            http://www.ishiilab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp/~Alberto    
Yokohama National University       e-mail: alberto@example.com



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