What that doesn't tell you iif you can have it or not, even if your exchange is enabled. Our exchange is, but even though its less than a mile, as the crow files, its 3 miles plus as the cable goes....So over a mile too far for even the slowest ADSL. Still we do have National Thieves Limited and their "broad-band" (which isn't really so I'm told) in the area.
Niel, one of many radio hams whose repeaters had to move following demands of "commercial rates" by NTL when they took over the "management" of many transmitter sites in the UK.
We've given up on getting ADSL so my company is paying for ISDN; now the family want me to find an unmetered ISP for their use that can offer 128k ISDN for a reasonable monthly charge - any suggestions?
I also need to get the home network sorted (the DIY relevant bit) so need a router and WAP. The Vigor 2600W has ISDN and an 802.11b WAP but it's pricey, can anyone suggest an ISDN router that supports VPN (for the work related access)?
I have a shed-load of Lucent/Ascend Pipeline 75s still in shrink-wrapped boxes and I'm wondering what to do with them as not that many people are interested in ISDN anymore.
I'd imagine Demon Super Showroom is in the same leage as Clara's offering. Whether the OP finds either of these to have reasonable monthly charges is perhaps another matter though.
Don't sign up for ISDN this late in the day. How does your exchange look like on
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When BT finally enabled my exchange and the engineer came to hook it all up, he commented how many ISDN boxes there were lying around in skips these days.
"Grunff" wrote | Dave wrote: | > We've given up on getting ADSL so my company is paying for ISDN; now | > the family want me to find an unmetered ISP for their use that can | > offer 128k ISDN for a reasonable monthly charge - any suggestions? | IME only one worth considering - Clara |
Clara are generally very good but their news server tends to die or run like treacle about 9pm weekday evenings.
Not if the wait is going to be years which it may be for many people. Also 128k ISDN with compression is remarkably good subjectively.
There are quite a few ISPs offering 128k ISDN, just do a google search for "128k ISDN ISP" and you'll find quite a few. I'm in the process of selecting one at the moment, current front runner is NDO.
Here's a quick list of *some* ISPs that offer 128k ISDN:-
Comparing ADSL to wireless community broadband is worth the wait. It's a bit variable depending on system load but 1Mbps full duplex is the norm, in the wee small hours I've had 4 to 5Mbps, full duplex of course.
Generally a helpful bunch, and they seem to offer unlimited connectivity, but with a 1 or 2 hour cutoff. This is no big issue because the router will automatically remake the connection. Just means that you have to use a download manager which can restart long downloads.
Oh I don't know, I can change to ISDN for an extra £1.50 /mth to BT and the demon 128k unlimited access line is the same price as what I'm paying. Its certainly fast enough for me ATM and trigger levels for ADSL are still too high for access any time soon in this area.
We've used Demon for analogue dial-up for many years, unfortunately they only offer 64k ISDN with surftime. The 128k offering is £60/month - a bit too steep for home use.
... but if you're on SDU it's costing you £11.75/monthi for something that just about everyone else is offering for free. For that sort of amount many ISPs will offer you unmetered connectivity.
The exchange is enabled but the attenuation of both our lines is too high (although they won't tell us what the actual figure is!) even for extended-reach ADSL. The PowerLine trial doesn't cover our area. The cable services are too far away. .....AFAIK this only leaves satellite or ISDN and my employer is paying for the ISDN install.
This all sounds like we live in a remote Welsh valley - we actually live in a village a couple of miles N of Winchester.
What I have here, is a small CISCO router, ISDN business highway (so I can stll use the phone) and a Demon unlimited access account. Plus BT anytime.
The whole lot cots me about 1500 quid a year including phone charges.
The router is set up to do NAT, and runs a couple of computers fine.
Ths cisco is a 800 series with 4 ethernet hub built in. Its not the cheapest option, but it has never missed a beat. I got it because I am very familiar with Cisco kit.
BT anytime works as advertised.
Demon sucks, always has, always will, but you do get a fixed IP address which makes getting through other peoples firewalls a bit easier to manage. I think Pipex also do a unlimited access ISDN service on anytime numbers.
Transfer rates are about double what I used to get with a modem - about
6k a second if demon is not borked (which it mostly is)
Its advisable not steer clear of Demons popmail service. I have two Clara Net 'lite' domains+popmail and web services and one other which cost me about another 30 quid a year each.
If I could find four people withing wifi range who wanted brodaband, I'd bring in a leased line...and go 2Mbps...:-) But its about 8 k a year to do that...
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