---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <nqsebs$1el$1@panix2.panix.com> Date: 8 Sep 2016 15:32:12 -0400 From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) Subject: Re: Alternatives to AT&T DSL service Fred Goldstein <fg_es@removeQRM.ionary.com> wrote: >On 9/6/2016 12:32 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote: >> In article <nojisr$3gu$1@news.albasani.net>, >> Bob Prohaska <bp@www.zefox.net> wrote: >>> Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote: >>>> Alternately you can download the state tariff yourself and look >>>> through it, but it's pretty heavy going. I suppose you could ask >>>> someone at the PUC for information though. >>>> >>>> If it's not in the book, it's a non-tariffed service. > >Y'all do realize that DSL is not tariffed. Of course, and that sentence in one short line describes everything that has gone wrong with telco regulation in the past decade. But the original poster is asking about telephone service. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." ------------------------------ Message-ID: <nqseg0$51v$1@panix2.panix.com> Date: 8 Sep 2016 15:34:24 -0400 From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) Subject: Re: Is 384 Kibit/s adequate for travel? On Tue, 6 Sep 2016 17:21:00 -0400, Julian Thomas wrote: > > We are going on a trip where the only communications options are > satellite phone @$7/min or 384 Kibit/s internet @ 25-50 cents/min. > How grim is this by today's standards? By American standards it's pretty good. I wish I could get service that fast where I live. It's perfectly fine for email when people aren't sending enormous binary attachments, and it's just fine for ssh as well. By European standards it's shamefully slow. --scott --- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." ***** Moderator's Note ***** IIRC, 384 Kibit/s was the rate of an ISDL line way back when. When we were all trying to make do with 300 baud modems and accoustic couplers, IDSL and ISDN were the "gold standard" of data communications. Bill Horne Moderator ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sat, 10 Sep 2016