26 Mar
2007
26 Mar
'07
3:16 a.m.
"Chuck Guzis" wrote:
Telcos used to (maybe prior to 1990) offer copper-to-copper
connections for things like fire and burglar alarms. Some
enterprising souls were making a go of using these connections
instead of ISDN (probably over a short haul, it might work). I was
surprised at how quickly all of the RBOCs got rid of the all-copper
arrangement.
They still offer this (Verizon, anyway). It's tariffed.
I do this now with 2 SDSL modems I bought for $25 on ebay.
The copper is $40/month and I get about 1mbit/second between my house
and office. I run off-site backups and I'm typing this using VNC
over the same link.
-brad