Flatrates for Dialups DO exist, but you have to switch to another TELCO that the Deutsche Telekom for this. Since ISDN is more common in Europe than the US, i'll tell you something about it: dialing in is instantenous, a few milisceconds usually, speed is 64Kb/s up- and downlink (fullduplex so to speak),
and the neccesary equipment is standardized here, if your'e cheap, you can use analog telephones via a so called "A/B-Wandler". Some Telcos let you use channelbundling, which ups the speed to 128Kb/s up/down. Since T-DSL is not available anywhere, not even in some streets in bigger cities, where in the next street it is, this could be a viable alternative.
I suugest you inform yourself at the sites like onlinekosten.de mentioned in the other posts.
T-DSL is available at 786Kb/s downstream 128 Kb/s upstream as flatrate. Higher speeds aren't flat anymore. When living in a metropolitan area it's
often possible to get better connectivity from local Telcos.
For Dusseldorf there is ISIS, for Cologne there is Netcologne and so on, in Mannheim you can have Powerline, in some other areas cable. Then there is www.qsc.de, www.arcor.de, www.versatel.de, www.komtel.de and so on.
I would avoid the Deutsche Telekom under all possible circumstances!
As almost everything with x86/ia32 technology this is just another braindead cheapo option. I mean, sure this will need another primary partition? And why the heck they just don't implement OPENFIRMWARE 'coz thats all the bios you'll ever need? I really hope the guys from the different open/free bios projects get their things right, up and running. I can't stand the trash anymore!
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Afaik they were deep into some long forgotten 8Bit Homecomputerstandard called MSX which only was successful in Japan for some time.
Flatrates for Dialups DO exist, but you have to switch to another TELCO that the Deutsche Telekom for this. Since ISDN is more common in Europe than the US, i'll tell you something about it: dialing in is instantenous, a few milisceconds usually, speed is 64Kb/s up- and downlink (fullduplex so to speak), and the neccesary equipment is standardized here, if your'e cheap, you can use analog telephones via a so called "A/B-Wandler". Some Telcos let you use channelbundling, which ups the speed to 128Kb/s up/down. Since T-DSL is not available anywhere, not even in some streets in bigger cities, where in the next street it is, this could be a viable alternative.
I suugest you inform yourself at the sites like onlinekosten.de mentioned in the other posts. T-DSL is available at 786Kb/s downstream 128 Kb/s upstream as flatrate. Higher speeds aren't flat anymore. When living in a metropolitan area it's often possible to get better connectivity from local Telcos. For Dusseldorf there is ISIS, for Cologne there is Netcologne and so on, in Mannheim you can have Powerline, in some other areas cable. Then there is www.qsc.de, www.arcor.de, www.versatel.de, www.komtel.de and so on. I would avoid the Deutsche Telekom under all possible circumstances!
As almost everything with x86/ia32 technology this is just another braindead cheapo option.
I mean, sure this will need another primary partition? And why the heck they just don't implement OPENFIRMWARE 'coz thats all the bios
you'll ever need?
I really hope the guys from the different open/free bios projects get their things right, up and running. I can't stand the trash anymore!