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dye <dye11@adsl-64-108-194-61.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net> wrote:
>Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> wrote:
>>Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> wrote:
>>>dye <dye@adsl-64-108-194-61.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net> wrote:

>>>>At the time, chicagonet.net didn't detect two 64k connections,
>>>>so I got all the computers in the network 128K access for
>>>>$15/month....a bit of an improvement over 40k "dialout"

>>>Hmm, that doesn't sound right.

>>>Maybe they didn't detect it but must of permitted it, the channel bonding
>>>for ISDN was mostly an option to support, I don't think it was "on" by
>>>default with most hardware.

>>>Besides the profile to support the bonding, the stuff we used (livingston
>>>and 3com) I think used a stock profile setting "Line-Limit=1" so if someone
>>>borrowed someone elses login and tried to use it, both connections were
>>>dropped.

>>>I'm just saying, was probably more intentional than accidental.

>>>Maybe they outsourced.

>>I think I used chicagonet if it was the NT (really) based ISP that just 
>>rented dialup pool connections from level3 or something like that.

>>lots of those places really didn't know if you had both channels up. It 
>>took RCN years to notice I (and everybody) was doing that.

>They had two different price plans, so not intentional.  I seem to 
>remember my one data line being "dialed out" most of the time.
>Since it was a "Band A" call, it was 5 cents, untimed.

Timed data call is the stupidity that prevented ISDN from being more
widely deployed and kept numerous people on modems who would have
bought digital service instead.