Re: Internet access levels

[Sharon Hamer <hamer@MEOL.MASS.EDU>]

What is an ISDN line?  Is it like a SLIP connection (which I don't really
understand but know we need to have to have full internet access)?

Thanks

Sharon Hamer
Library Media Specialist
(hamer@meol.mass.edu)
Cambridge Rindge and Latin School
459 Broadway
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
617 * 349 * 6781

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On Mon, 13 Feb 1995, Pope wrote:

> LM_NETers. Since you have proved to be the best source of
> information except perhaps rumor/urban legend, I have a query.
>
> We have Internet access, to a degree. We get e:mail, we can
> telnet, there are some gophers we can reach, etc.
>
> Then last week I visited a school that has an "ISDN line," and
> I was blown away. They get video, sound, hypertext, they can
> do searches of cyberspace in seconds, etc.
>
> As far as I know the only things they have that we don't are
> these: the ISDN line, higher speed modems, a big MAC of some kind
> for the motion/video, a camera to show who's home on their home page.
>
> We have been told at our school that we also have an ISDN line. We must
> depend on local German phone folks, slow-moving engineers, etc. when
> anything gets done. What is needed to get access like our neighbor
> school has? This may lack important information for a good answer,
> but can anyone detail for me in general what has to happen for ISDN
> access? It might be enough to get the right questions going out at
> least.
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Dana Pope
> popeda@heidelberg-emh2.army.mil
>