In the early- or mid-90s (before 56 kbps modems were available), Ma Bell started pushing ISDN in eastern Massachusetts. The least cost configuration was two residential voice lineswhich they billed at standard voice phone rates. A low cost voice plan provided unlimited calls to contiguous towns, so a local ISP took advantage and I jumped on their service.
For several years, I had 2x56 Kbps on one telco pair running multilink ppp. This provided 112 Kbps, 7x24, when most people had only 14.4 kbps dial up. Those were the days... 🙂 Thanks, Brough ________________________________ From: AF <[email protected]> on behalf of Chuck McCown via AF <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 21, 2023 7:00 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> Cc: Chuck McCown <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Remember these times Had 6 lines burning 24/7 for several years. But I worked got the telco. There was an arbitrage so we actually got paid to haul in connectivity this way to a rural exchange. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 21, 2023, at 5:43 PM, Daniel Pautz via AF <[email protected]> wrote:  Ha, I remember those days, I had a few dial lines linked in multilink ppp on 24/7, the isp didn’t like me much but it was 24/7 so I used it! so much cheaper than ISDN Already had the lines into my moms house from the BBS days. From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Chuck McCown via AF Sent: Friday, July 21, 2023 10:17 AM To: [email protected] Cc: Chuck McCown <[email protected]> Subject: [AFMUG] Remember these times <image001.jpg> The ‘90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president<https://apple.news/AeY0ayCpKQiO4dXtbHQ3e4w> Ars Technica<https://apple.news/AeY0ayCpKQiO4dXtbHQ3e4w> Sent from my iPhone -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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