I had ISDN too, before DSL became an option. I got pretty good at configuring the routers due to the number of customers I supported who also used ISDN. Some customers used ISDN and had 20+ people sharing a 128K line! Talk about yer bear skins and stone knives! There were some tricks, mostly that Ascend (router manufacturer) offered pretty good support back in the day. Now that I think of it, I might even have a couple of ISDN routers in storage!

There are a number of reasons I want to use a static ip. The elk cams are part of it, - I found some cool remote cams that can be aimed and zoomed, and aren’t too expensive. But they would be worthless if I was limited to 50K uplink speed. Plus I wanna manipulate the house heating system from far away (i.e. turn on the furnace before we get there). But mostly it’s an opportunity for another toy.

Given the options, I will make an effort to split a T1 with my neighbors. From what I've found, if me and 9 other neighbors split the costs, I’d be into it about the same as ISDN would cost me, alone. Plus no crippled bandwidth, upload or weather related problems (as with sat), save for the occasional power outage. The community has its own power substation that I'm told is a relay station for a ski resort a little up the road. In the last 2+ years power hasn’t been out for more than a couple of hours. What would be really cool is to get one of the fiber links. I’d have to convince most of the community to make it cost effective, but how sweet would 45 mbps be?!

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