From: Christopher E Stefan <flatline@u.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 95 15:41:39 PST
To: Eric Hughes <eric@remailer.net>
Subject: Re: The Remailer Crisis
In-Reply-To: <199501241501.HAA21364@largo.remailer.net>
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On Tue, 24 Jan 1995, Eric Hughes wrote:

>    From: root <root@einstein.ssz.com>
> 
>    Exactly how does this work at your location Eric? Here in Southwestern Bell
>    we don't use the D except for call initiation and termination. There is no
>    useage tarriff other than this. 
> 
> The standard residential tariff here in Pac Bell is flat rate duing
> non-business hours and per-minute during them.

Most LEC's charge per-minute for ISDN.  Pac Bell and SWBT are some of the 
few exceptions.  What's even worse is in some states there isn't even a 
residential ISDN tariff, hence all ISDN lines are "business" lines and 
billed accordingly.  The only real solution is to demand dial the 
connection from both ends.  This is fairly straightforward assuming your 
provider is set up for it, since there is a lot of ISDN equipment that 
will brfing the connection up only when there are packets to send then 
idle it out.

An economical alternative in some areas is frame-relay.  In Washington 
state USwest wants ~$70/month for a 56k FR link to anywhere in your 
LATA.  The providers around here charge $100-$150 to link a single 
machine to the net via FR, and $150-$350 if you are routing a whole 
subnet.

-- 
Christopher E Stefan  *  flatline@u.washington.edu  *  PGP 2.6ui key by request