Re: FN-FORUM: Dial up via ISDN

date posted 15th August 2004 12:30

On Sunday 15 Aug 2004 10:47, KKC TFXWeb wrote:
> Dunno if anyone can make any recommendations here. A client is unable to
> get ADSL at their premises and are currently using a BT ISDN (128k I
> believe) connection. At present they're connecting to AOL and paying a
> monthly fee. They reckon they don't pay any call costs on the ISDN
> connection, although AFAIK there is a call charge involved (BT's Office
> Highway seems to have different tariffs, some of which include a certain
> amount of call costs).
>
> They want to move away from AOL and just use a dial-up ISP that doesn't
> charge a fee. We tend to recommend Fasthosts Dial in these situations
> (local rate call and that's it), however they can only connect to Fasthos=
ts
> Dial by using one channel of the ISDN, thus only getting half the speed.
>
> Does anyone know of any dial-up ISPs that do provide a two channel
> connection and don't charge any fees?
>
> TIA
> Kerry


Hi,

I used to use Demon with ISDN - not sure how well the channel binding worke=
d -=20
could never afford the double call costs! I have also used www.UKLinux.net.

If they are not paying call costs - I want to know how - ISDN was much more=
=20
reliable than ADSL, re-phrase that - ISDN was reliable, my ADSL link can be=
=20
GUARANTEED to drop out at the wrong time.

Regards

Trevor Hennion