Had ISDN in the mid-90s back when I worked for an ISP. Wasn't expensive from my telco, 40 1996 dollars a month and the cost of a Motorola BitSURFR Pro. Got dial-up bonding working on the ISP side. It could "ring through" one of the B-channels when a call came in and stay connected on the other. A wonderful time.
I remember. It was very expensive for not a lot of extra bandwidth.
You also needed a special ISDN phone or a, again expensive, box to convert the signal to normal POTS.
Not long after the cable company started offering 'broadband' at 115 kbps, quickly upgraded to 512kbps.
Had ISDN in the mid-90s back when I worked for an ISP. Wasn't expensive from my telco, 40 1996 dollars a month and the cost of a Motorola BitSURFR Pro. Got dial-up bonding working on the ISP side. It could "ring through" one of the B-channels when a call came in and stay connected on the other. A wonderful time.
I remember. It was very expensive for not a lot of extra bandwidth. You also needed a special ISDN phone or a, again expensive, box to convert the signal to normal POTS.
Not long after the cable company started offering 'broadband' at 115 kbps, quickly upgraded to 512kbps.
ISDN was a complete non-starter in my locale.