🚀 go-pugleaf

On 11/6/2011 1:54 PM, Cydrome Leader wrote:
> Adam H. Kerman<ahk@chinet.com>  wrote:
>> Bruce Esquibel<bje@ripco.com>  wrote:
>>> Adam H. Kerman<ahk@chinet.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> I really think once Uverse is "mostly available", the DSL is going to end up
>>> where ISDN is now, a legacy service that few of their people are going to
>>> know about it.
>>
>> I would have loved ISDN, but AT&T fucked it up so it never became a
>> ubiquitous service unless you were provisioning a PBX.
>
> The only problem with ISDN it was really quite pointless to anybody that
> never had it. It was never going to be a hit, with anybody.
>
> The same type of idiots that made LDAP came up with ISDN as a solution to
> a problem that never existed. Like anything from a committee with no real
> technical skills or real life experience, it was far too complex and
> offered nothing anybody really wanted.
>
> Unless people with pulse dial phones and party lines were really itching
> to get 3 frames per minute video conferencing, or to have to lease another
> terminal adapter to connect to their leased telephone, class I fax machine
> and credit card terminal.
>
> Sadly, the committee or whoever that came up with ISDN seemed to think
> these were the people that would want it. So obviously since nobody aside
> from 14 businesses used it, it was hard to get for anybody else.
>
> I lived at one place that I wanted ISDN at. AT&T said my CO had no capable
> switch, but they could run the line over from another CO for only
> $285/month or something weird like that.

It never offered enough of an increase over dialup to be feasible as a 
hot product. To get any appreciable speed increase you had to have 
2-channel anyways.

That said, I had dual ISDN at home for years when I couldn't get DSL due 
to CO distance factors. It was the only better-than-dialup option I had.

What really sucked was when it had trouble and I had to grind through a 
few field techs until I found the one out of 100 that had actually heard 
of ISDN and knew what to do with it.

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smr