[141768] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yup; the Internet is screwed up.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Sat Jun 11 07:21:35 2011
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <20110611055447.GB19266@hiwaay.net>
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 07:20:36 -0400
To: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jun 11, 2011, at 1:54 AM, Chris Adams wrote:
> IIRC in the several years I
> had ISDN service, my bill was never exactly the same amount two
> consecutive months (and I never had any usage charges, so it wasn't
> because of that).
I upgraded several years ago to ISDN at home to move the D<->A =
conversion to my house to get clear dial-tone. About every other bill =
the price is adjusted up or down 2-3c due to some 'change in price'. I =
get 2 lines plus caller-id delivery for under $55/mo. Mobile/IP =
telephony for long-distance instead of sending it out the BRI.
I've debated canceling the service and porting the number over to the =
verizon home connect box as it'd lower the cost to $19 and still leave =
the kids with the experience of learning their phone number and the =
babysitter having something they can dial with. It also likely has =
better battery time than my UPS setup for when the power goes out.
Haven't quite convinced myself to dump the ISDN yet but i'm getting =
there. I do figure it's a mixture of "sticking it to at&t" to keep the =
service active vs "is it actually worth it". I still have a modem (not =
sure i'd know where to dial) if I needed to dial-out to someplace in the =
event of a major internet meltdown to assist.
Time to revise that continuity of operations plan? :)
- Jared=
