On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Adam Maloney wrote: > IDSL is just ISDN, provisioned just like ISDN but it doesn't use the > 16kb D channel for signalling, so your throughput rate is increased from > 128k to 144k. That's why the pricing is almost identical to ISDN. But > yes, it should run over fiber and the 18kft distance limit is > non-existant. US-West was supposedly working on another solution to > get "real" DSL to fiber-fed homes but I haven't heard any news on that. > To me their roll-out of iDSL is like waving the white flag above their > little foxhole...they give up. IDSL also loses support for analog lines 'n stuff. Fun! -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org