RE: Bit the bullet...

[Keith Doxey <ukha.diyha@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Phil,

I have Home Highway and a BT Speedway card in the main PC shared via
Win98SE
ICS. works well.

I also have an Ignition TA (Motorola Bitsurfer) which I use on the laptop
or
for a second ISDN dialup. The 2 analogue ports on the TA can be used as
another 2 analogue lines. The situation I have is this (numbers are not
real
BTW!)

01493 774001 = Analogue 1 with CLI
01493 774002 = Analogue 2 with CLI
01493 774000 = Digital Number

Using the TA, the analogue ports become analogue lines of
01493 774000 Line1
01493 774000 Line2
thereby giving a 2 line PBX.

You can still only ever have any 2 circuits in use at one time but the way
I
use it is

analogue 1 = published personal number for me.
analogue 2 = ex directory number not given to anyone.
virtual pbx on digital number = used when working from home so I know it is
work calling without them having my "true" home number. If the TA
is
unplugged the virtual pbx numbers either return a message saying "the
call
is not compatable withthe line" or Number Unobtainable.

Also, when I had 2 analogue lines prior to Home Highway, the dedicated
internet line gave a max speed of 41333, usually 40000, sometimes 38666.
The
voice line with the phones on sometimes only got 33600. Plugging the same
modem into the analogue ports on Home Highway gets 50K :-)

A router would be nice, (in fact I have an Ascend Pipeline kicking around
if
I ever get it working!) because I wouldnt have to have a particular PC
turned on, but using ICS does give you the ability to use <Mark - insert
the
name of that dialler program here please!> to automate dialups to
different
numbers at different times.

Keith.

-----Original Message-----
From: Phillip Harris [mailto:phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 23:21
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Bit the bullet...



I finally got so cheesed off at my crappy internet connection speed that
I've ordered Home Highway ... it goes against several earlier decisions but
with no ADSL even on the horizon and Cable Modems rapidly heading that way
too then I was going to be stuck with 1.7kbytes/sec transfer rates and
typically 1 minute 20 seconds wait to dial up and connect to my ISP!

£39.99 a month for a Home Highway line, £7 worth of inclusive calls and
6pm - 8am on weekdays and 6pm Friday - 8am Monday as free internet access
periods with BT acting as my ISP. Gets installed next Friday...

Now ... ideally I'd like to find a reasonably (OK *cheap*) ISDN router so
that I can just plug it into my existing network however that's not likely
to happen ... the people who had the house before me left their BT Speedway
ISDN TA (complete with manual and CD but unfortunately no serial cable)
here
when they moved out so I do have an external ISDN "modem"
already. What I
was wanting to know is ... has anyone actually compared external and
internal ISDN "modems" for performance, reliability and speed? I
need to be
able to share the ISDN connection across my network (including my ePod).

Any comments and/or suggestions are gratefully appreciated...

Phil





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