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well, isdn is a step up from dialup its a tech to replace the pots (plain old telephone system) with something a little better. like i said, the main advantage is all you need for the line to the customer is the 2 wires he already has. it takes up a little more bandwidth on the 2 wires, so your theoretical maximum with parallel dsl on that line reduces by a few percent. but the main trick feature is that the signal on the 2 wires gets converted onto a 4 wire bus in the house and all devices connect to that, making the whole setup fully digital for better voice and constant data speed. look it up on howstuffworks or similar site. the main difference to dialup on analog lines that you will see is that the connect only takes tenths f a second, since the signal is already all digital and no handshake procedure is necessary, and the guaranteed 64 k instead of the soft 56k on analog.

likeme and others have stated before, traffic costs the ispmoney. that is why the slow uploads. isps have decided to keep the upload slower to force people that want to host stuff, implying they are making money wih it themselves, to use a business class connection which means that they either pay a igher monthly fee and/or get charged for traffic volume generated.

because you have a huge old city that needs to be fibered, with a high density of potential customers. equals a fuckload of fiber to lay.

well, you pretty much nailed the 5 down, but if you really are supposed to have 5 up, you got problems.

hm. maybe i could. but then where would the fun be? trolling may be as wrong as p2p, but at least it's not illegal.

hm. doesn't have to be windows. it's surprisingly easy to leave a memory leak in code.

that depends on what your advertised speed is. meaning, what are you paying for?

maybe a link to the game? free? for real? or 'free'?

that would be his problem if he was paying for two connections. he ain't. he prolly had a second hookup in the house on which his cable worked until they wised upo and shut him down, now he wants to use a splitter to hook up 2 modems to the working line. i agree. buy a router, throw a roll of cable down the side of the house.

what do you mean, old friend of a friend story. just because his friends don't have any reliable friends doesn't mean noone's friends are reliable. did you hear that from a friend of one of your buddies? i for one choose only quality aquaintances that prove to me with a quick background check that all their so-called friends are reasonably accurate in their statements. if in doubt, i simply subpoena the friends friends friend to get the lowdon on the story. if he confirms it i can be reasonably sure that truth is served. just because you have unreliable friends doesn't mean you should go around calling everyone sloppy in the choice of their buddies.

try plugging a phone into your sattelite hookup. won't get you far. different techs for different needs.

except that isdn has a decent ping and routing, whereas a sat connect goes out of this world on its routes.

no, the 16k is just for protocol data. the 2 lines are voice or 64k data. most terminal adapters can use both lines simultaeneously to get 128k.

ok. your original post never mentioned who or what offered that connection.

basically the data connection is dialup. just at a fixed 64k per each of the 2 channels. it's generally used for remote monitoring where the device needs to be able to call into a data center quickjly to report a condition and the like, or of course for residential internet and telephony where dsl and the like are unavailable.

not the speed. what kind of connectrion? cable/dsl/sat/microwave or gerbil in a pipe?

if you intentionally use the connection without permission, yes. the problem is, intent or accident is hard to prove. if you get your gear running they assume that you know what it's connected to. that's what the da will tell the jury in any case.

no, we think you might be leaching from the neighbor, since you said you had verizon but your test says pacbell.net.

no such thing as an isdn modem. it's called a terminal adapter. no need to modulate/demodulate (MoDem) since it's all digital. and yeah, course they still make em. i cannot understand why isdn isn't rolled out more in the us. out of personal experience installing it in germany isdn is the perfect way to get a second line to a house/app that has only one appartment, besides all the other advantages over pots.

yes, so the client has to have the media files unless the connection is fast enough that you can open a shared file on the host and play it from there. you cannot however pipe the output from the host to the client. so to be absolutely clear: upload file from host to client, open on client. badabing.

and if you do have verizon and are connecting wireless and leaching off a neighbors link, try to find out which one and kick him in the fork for not turning on his encryption.

i think it is.

ah, envy. and so eloquently expressed, too.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4200000/newsid_4209000/4209004.stm