Re: [TCLUG:16382] USWest offers IDSL

[Jon Schewe <jpschewe@eggplant.mtu.net>]

Dan Debertin <danield@bitstream.net> writes:

> On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Yaron wrote:
> > 
> > Well, I'm not all that familiar with all the *DSL variants. is How is IDSL
> > different from whatever I have now? Is it just a Greater Distance
> > version?
> 
> >From what I gather from the website, the main difference is lower speed
> and the fact that you can't use the line for voice & data
> simultaneously. Just shooting from the hip after reading the network
> disclosure, I _think_ it's PPP-over-ATM to the DSLAM, and then ISDN for
> the last mile. There's a bit in there about HDLC, though, so now I'm not
> so sure.

I've got it here, it's limited to 144k and it's an ISDN line where they run
frame relay across the two channels, then bind the channels together and run
ATM over that, thus the 144, 128 + 16.

-- 
Jon Schewe 
http://eggplant.mtu.net/~jpschewe
schewe@tcfreenet.org