Dan Karron@UCBVAX.BERKELEY.EDU (12/09/90)
What type of line did you get ? Here in the states, I shopped hard to find the cheapest way I could connect off premise offices to the nyu net. A conditioned analog line was too much money, and I live only a block away from the campus. A digital line was astronomical in cost, even for low baud rates. i The cheapest solution I found was called in Bell/ATT jargon a LADC circuit (Local Area Data Circuit). They are unconditioned copoper wires. I could rent a copper wire from the telephone central office for 12.50 dollars (American) per month per end. So for 8 ends ( full duplex, end to end : originate Transmit/Receive pair and a terminate Transmit/Receive pair) the cost is affordable. The caveat is you are at the mercy of the phone co as to routing and mileage. They also don't promise the AWG of the wire. You may have 22 awg in your premise, but 28 awg in the 500 pair bundles under the street. I have ordered dozens of local loops in this way, and have had good luck whith what I get. The key is the location of your central office. This service is available only within the local wiring plant of your co. I had run 64K sync line drivers accross the street with no problems. The measured resistance indicates that there were 3,000 feet of 24 AWG copper in the loop to go 500 feet. With newer modems, you should be able to go farther. I have not yet run a private line into my apartment, but it is an idea in the back of my mind for when my wife won't let me out to go to the lab late at night. >From loki@frodo.Physics.McGill.CA Sat Dec 8 12:48:35 1990 >Received: from acf4.nyu.edu by karron.med.nyu.edu (5.52/890607.SGI.DBK2) > (for karron) id AA16060; Sat, 8 Dec 90 12:48:35 EST >Received: from NYU.EDU by acf4.NYU.EDU (5.61/1.34) > id AA27564; Sat, 8 Dec 90 12:44:38 -0500 >Received: from frodo.Physics.McGill.CA by cmcl2.NYU.EDU (5.61/1.34) > id AA05537; Sat, 8 Dec 90 12:46:23 -0500 >Received: by frodo.Physics.McGill.CA > id AA10895; Sat, 8 Dec 90 12:44:15 EST (5.59++/IDA-1.1S) >Date: Sat, 8 Dec 90 12:44:15 EST >From: Loki Jorgenson Rm421 <loki@Physics.McGill.CA> >Message-Id: <9012081744.AA10895@frodo.Physics.McGill.CA> >To: karron@nyu.edu >Subject: modem lines > > > I like your comments about net access. Very forward thinking. >I myself just paid for my own 19200 baud data line to the department >and when I finally get my whatever (lets say, a 4D/35 loaded), I will >be running SLIP. Of course, I'm academia too. But you are quite right >in saying that net access it too limited. > >Regards, > __ __ >Loki Jorgenson / / \ \ node: loki@physics.mcgill.ca >Grad, Systems Manager / ////// \\\\\\ \ BITNET: PY29@MCGILLA >Physics, McGill University \ \\\\\\ ////// / fax: (514) 398-3733 >Montreal Quebec CANADA \_\ /_/ phone: (514) 398-6531 > +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | karron@nyu.edu (E-mail alias that will always find me) | | Fax: 212 340 7190 * Dan Karron, Research Associate | | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . * New York University Medical Center | | 560 First Avenue \*\ Pager <1> (212) 397 9330 | | New York, New York 10016 \**\ <2> 10896 <3> <your-number-here> | | (212) 340 5210 \***\_________________________________________ | | Main machine: karron.med.nyu.edu (128.122.135.3) IRIS 85GT | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+