On Friday 27 June 2003 19:04, Richard Rauch wrote:

> I'm sure that for some, ISDN is important, but still assume that it's
> relatively obscure.  Maybe I'm wrong?
>
>
> Thanks for pointing up the ease of integrating ISDN into pre-1.6 NetBSD
> systems, though.  (^&

ISDN is absolutely essential to me. There is no other really feasible 
connectivity option in Germany except of DSL. It is normed here. No different 
equipment or terminal adapters needed when you move elsewhere. It has been
heavily sponsored not all too long ago. It's available everywhere. Even now, 
with our quasimonopolistic Deutsche Telekom, it's less expensive to have 
(T-)DSL bundled with ISDN instead of DSL bundled with POTS, ignoring the fact 
that the used frequency bands are overlapping partly. It's 64 real Kilobits 
per second (no downgrading because of noisy lines and such) and depending on
the provider the "dial in" can be tweaked to some 100 miliseconds or less. 
Also depending on the provider you can do so called channelbundling on demand
with multilink ppp and have 128 Kb/s. Even with DSL it's good enough to to 
fallback to.