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I have to admit, this is a pretty ingenious idea to bringing faster Internet access to the masses: take that 4Khz voice channel and turn it into data. That's the suggestion that Brian Boyko over at Network Performance Daily has.
The scheme would turn a typical 4Khz phone line into a pure data line with a speed roughly 4 times the speed of a 56k dialup modem. This isn't broadband by today's standards, but it's better than nothing. And voice calls can be compressed with something like G.729 or G.723, leaving you plenty of room to surf and talk.
What do you think about this scheme? Could it work?
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what you are talking about is something very similar to basic rate ISDN. it never got implemented in the USA but was very popular in many european countries. notable Germany and Scandinavian nations. i was pretty much the intermediary between regular landlines and DSL over there.
I had Basic Rate ISDN for a number of years before I could get DSL or cable modems. There was a DSL version of ISDN called IDSL, which just combined the 2 B and 1 D channel. Not quite sure what the point of that was.
The U.S. telcos really shot themselves in the foot by making ISDN so bloody expensive. It has always tariffed as a business service, which made it insanely expensive for consumers. However, 128k was quite respectable speed back in the late 1990s, and I even had it with 6 static IPs.
What is being proposed here would be about twice as fast as ISDN, at least on the downstream. A reasonable, well-promoted residential ISDN tariff would likely go a long way.
That is a great idea, in most cases it would be better than Satellite Internet for many reasons.
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