RE: Offtopic - ISDN toll-free 24x7 ISPs

["Mark Harrison" <Mark@xxxxxxx>]

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Mark/John,

Thanks for the advice. Sadly, as we found out, it doesn't help my company.

However, on the basis of these emails, I went onto the web to BT and
freeserve, put together costings, and my wife's company has this afternoon
agreed to upgrade our home line to Highway, and pay the freeserve £10 a
month.

Mary works from home one day per week, and is currently paying about
£80/month dial-in charges. The £10/month + a VPN solution looked good, and
after a quick talk with their networks manager, we agreed that the ISDN
solution would help reliability also.

So I now have free, 24x7, ISDN ISP access from home :-)

Regards,

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Dr John Tankard [mailto:jtankard@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 07 September 2000 17:12
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Offtopic - ISDN toll-free 24x7 ISPs



> > I looked at this service and concluded that the normal phone
calls are
> > expensive as the 10% discount is against BT's standard rate
rather than
> the
> > rate you actually pay.
>
> So don't use them.
>
> I don't make ANY calls thru Energis John.  I just pay them the 10 quid
a
> month instead - and that's the BEST value I have seen.
>

Ok I understand now


> > Do you disconnect your normal phone usage from
> > freeserve after the ? € ¦¦£10 is used ?
>
> Don't inderstand?  If you want to use them you just put 162 in
> front of the
> number.  No need to change your BT line.
>
> > You say ISDN, is that what you are on or is it Home Highway ?
>
> HomeHighway - any difference as far as your ISP is concerend??
>

No difference from ISP, but there would be from your end. HH much better at
home

> > and how does the service work with it, I.e. can you multi link ?
>
> Not on the 10.00 deal - you're rippin' the arse out of it a bit
> there aren't
> you mate ;-)  You can bind the 2 lines on the standard 0845 FS number.


Downloading 50Mb Novell files can be a bit slow on 64Kbs


>
> If anyone know of a better 24/7 deal than this (for ISDN & with
> no catches)
> then show me it?
>
> Who do you use John??


Freenetname. But I dont need 24/7.  yet....

John