26 Mar
2007
26 Mar
'07
1:50 p.m.
Rumor has it that Dave McGuire may have mentioned these words:
In my case, it was "instead of a T1", not
"instead of ISDN", as
I'd sooner exercise the bandwidth of a station wagon full of magtapes
before actually depending on ISDN for anything serious.
Define "serious."
When I last moved (5 years ago), I went from a place that then (and now)
had at best 48K modem connections; usually worse, and nothing faster... and
I was paying over $80/mo. for two phone lines. The wife had an in-home
daycare, and I couldn't fight her job for line rights to do my job.
ISDN was available at the new place (and was the fastest available at the
time) and just having a line that _always_ gave me 64K up & down (and could
pair them for 128K as necessary) made multiple Telnet/SSH sessions a
breeze... (and Diablo II was quite happy as well)... at $62/month.
Gosh, pay less, go faster, rock stable. No brainer! ;-)
Then for a little while, I had a 1 Mbps bidirectional wireless, the upload
speed was nice, but it's ping/response times could get slower than my ISDN,
and for SSH it actually wasn't as nice... but the price was right... free. ;-)
My now current (overpriced) connection [[required by my now current
employer]] which is 3Mbps Charter line plays WoW allright I guess, but the
upload speed sucks, as I do a lot of uploading for work.
I still have the ISDN (but right now it's just a phone line, as I don't
think anyone supports it in my town any longer :-( ) and if I had to go
back to it, I wouldn't have a problem in the slightest. It was dependable
to the extreme, albeit slow(ish) by today's standards (read: YouTube).
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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