Timothy Phan wrote: > > Hi, > > Many thanks to all the nice people who have replied to my question. > > Regarding high speed connection, I've called my telco (GTE) about > getting an ISDN line into my home and the response was not available. > The GTE sale rep/operator said that ISDN is only available to business > establishments only. > > Secondly, how much faster can I see between the 28.8 modem, ISDN, > T1, T2 , etc. I'd also want to know what should I need from the > ISP in order to setup the connection between my Debian/Linux box > to the ISP. All the ISPs seem to support only WFW3.11/95/Mac/NT > and not Linux. > > Also, how much faster if the the connection is PPP vs. SLIP or CSLIP? >
Leaving compression aside, 28.8 modem 28.8 Kbps ISDN 128 Kbps (64 Kbps/B-channel) T1 1.44 Mbps (now we're talkin'!) T2??? is there any such thing? T3 38.4 Mbps (oh baby!) SMDS hmm, I think you can get up to 100Mbps frame-relay 64 Kbps to 1.44 Mbps DS1 56 Kbps I imagine SLIP may actually be slighly faster due to decreased overhead for packet encapsulation. However, PPP can handle multiple protocols, multi-plex channels, is more robust, etc. etc. so I would recommend PPP. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
