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"Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote in
news:j9t1m6$4ee$1@news.albasani.net: 

> 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.

That's what killed it for me. First couple of phone bills were 
outrageous, so we dropped it. Yes, it was a business line. 

To add insult to injury, my rep signed me up for completelink at the time 
so I got a discount based on an agreed amount of volume, that came from 
the ISDN call estimates. After the year was up I got a bill for $700. 

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