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- From: jkay@ragtime.vnet.net (John Kelly)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga and ISDN
- Date: Sun, 14 Jan 96 10:20:31
- Organization: Ragtime East
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- peterk@combo.ganesha.com (Dr. Peter Kittel) writes:
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- >> At least, that's what the bandwidth of coaxial cables is: 35 Mbps
- >>(compared to ISDN's 56 Kbps).
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- > At least here in Germany, ISDN is 2 channels with 64 kbps plus 1 channel
- > with 16 kbps, no 56 anywhere. Our Web server has such a 64 kbps connection
- > to our provider.
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- A lot of phone companies are too cheap to install the proper equipment
- for 64kb ISDN, so they delete the D channel, and use inband handshaking,
- stealing 8kb from each B channel, leaving the screwed-over user with 56kb
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