Full 64 or 128K bandwidth to the Internet- no bottlenecks or restrictions.
Our ISDN connectivity provides high-speed access with no time limits or other restrictions. Every ISDN account includes all the features of the standard personal shell account.
Our experienced Technical Support staff will ensure that your new account works to your satisfaction, and can work to ensure a smooth transfer for customers switching from other account levels or providers.
Service Area
Features
Rates
Tested Configurations
Please see our SLIP/PPP Rates and Dedicated Circuit rates for additional connectivity information. You can subscribe for ISDN with our standard account application.
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The cities listed are the nearest municipality, the actual local calling zone for each presence point usually encompasses several suburbs and/or Chicago neighborhoods. Please contact your local phone company to determine the exact charge for calling your nearest location, if they cannot find our prefixes in their database, give one of the equivalent prefixes, listed above. |
Special features included with Ripco's ISDN service:
Full 64 or 128K bandwidth to the Internet- no bottlenecks or restrictions.
STAC Compression available at no extra charge.
A local call from just about anywhere in the Chicago Metropolitan Area,
including all of Chicago (312, 773),
and most suburbs (630, 708, 815 and 847 area codes). You may wish to check
Ameritech's rates for residential and business customers.
Additional IP addresses
(up to a full Class-C sized block) available as needed.
No limit on time, calls, call duration. This is a true 24x7 connection.
Your choice of hostname, can be combined with
DNS service to operate
under your own domain name. The only additional charges are the yearly
name service fees to us and Internic.
Includes a standard Ripco
shell account
with e-mail address and personal home page space on our server,
and the option to use our analog PPP
dialups in case you have problems with your ISDN line or hardware.
MX records can be set to deliver mail directly to your host, with messages
cached up to 72 hours if your system is unreachable.
64K ISDN service is available at $90/month ($270/quarter), or you can
combine two channels for 128K service at $170/month ($510/quarter). We
suggest that you start at the lower rate, when you outgrow the lower
bandwidth, switching up to the higher is a phone call away.
| Speed | Monthly | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 64K | 128K | All rates are for monthly-prepaid service. If you require an invoice, billing will be quarterly, prepaid service. If you are ever dissatisfied or wish to cancel, we will issue a refund check for the remaining service period. | |
| $90 | $170 |
ISDN access is via a dedicated ISDN router supporting CHAP and PAP authentication. Your ISDN equipment should support synchronous or V.120 PPP at 64Kbps, or 128Kbps with MultiLink PPP. Compression (STAC&tm;) should be available by 4Q97, at no extra charge.
We have tested the following configurations:
Our lead time on establishing new account service is 24 hours.
The lead time for Ameritech installation of new ISDN lines is 2-6 weeks.
Ameritech
charges a per-minute rate for business ISDN calls and for
residential calls beyond the 8-mile 'A zone' limit.
Call Ameritech for details.
Ameritech's new tariff appears to require an additional $6 monthly fee in order to have residential ISDN service with untimed A-zone calls. For more information about Ameritech rates and services call 1-800-TEAM-DATA (800-832-6328).