> On 2009-10-11, at 19:22 , Joe Greco wrote: > > (*) In the late 1990's, I heard the most astonishing claims made by > > a new > > entrant into the Milwaukee ISP market, about how some of the "other" > > ISP's > > "shared" lines between customers and this decreased your speeds. > > They had > > no clue who I was, so I engaged their technical person for a while > > who set > > out to convince me that other ISP's really _did_ do this mythical > > line- > > sharing - multiple modems to one port. Until I started talking > > about the > > technical aspects, that is. > > Not so mythical. Around the same time period, we found out about an > ISP offering always-on ISDN BRI service for such a low price that it > could not possibly make sense. We wondered how they could make ends > meet at that rate until we found out how they did it. They daisy > chained multiple customers' BRI lines together, using the second B > channel from one customer to connect the next customer down the line. > Once, one of their customers switched to our service and we > reconfigured their router (a legitimate action: both router and BRI > line belonged to the customer). Who knows how many downstream > customers we broke by doing that.
A virtual ISDN party line! Cool! :-) ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
