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In article <3284f81a.3159255@news.aimnet.com>, John Navas writes:

> [POSTED TO ba.internet]
> eric@wolf359.exile.org (Eric Edwards) wrote:
> 
> >People use watchdog timers becuase they need to stay connected, not
> >becuase they need the bandwidth.  Ever try to establish a connection to a
> >dial up connected machine that isn't dialed up?  It doesn't work.
> 
> What about autodial on demand?

Only works well with flat rate.  Otherwise, you have serious billing
headaches.  This could partly be resolved by arrangeing for all calls
from the ISP to the customer to be charged to the customer. 
Unfortunately, one person with a ping bot or a POP client can still put 
you in the poor house.

D channel packet data skirts both issues.

1) All B channel calls originate from the customer at the customers
   disgresion.  No billing problems.

2) Frequent, low bandwidth connections do not bring up any B channels.

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