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to: Dave Hatch
from: Poe Lim
date: 1997-03-13 18:47:16
subject: USR upgrade

Hello Dave,

On Mar 11 21:25 in a msg to Hamish Moffatt, Dave Hatch of 3:711/808 wrote:

HM> As I understand it, lower overheards and lower latency on ISDN than on 
HM> modems. So the effective performance is double or near enough.

 DH> Just the milliseconds of connect time, vis the many seconds of
 DH> trainup time, is probably enough to give the margin.  The near
 DH> total absence of errors is gravy. 

Pricing has also come down significantly; by the looks of it, a Microlink
is now under $300 to set up, with a monthly of $180. The byte rate I can't
recall.

Cheers,
Poe

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