RE: Home Highway Box.....

["Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

Cost...

HH is loads cheaper than ISDN2e IIRC.

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Garwood [mailto:themanse@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 13 May 2001 00:20
> To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Home Highway Box.....
>
>
> If HH is such a problem, what is stopping us moving to a true
> ISDN2e and a terminal adapter with analogue sockets ?
>
> Nigel
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Phil Harris [SMTP:phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx]
> Sent:	13 May 2001 00:15
> To:	ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject:	RE: [ukha_d] Home Highway Box.....
>
> We actually had a visit from a BT engineer this morning who came to
check
> that our HH install was working properly ... all he did was check that
the
> two lights were on on the HH box!
>
> Actually he was an OK bloke ... he actually said that what he was
> doing was
> pretty much just a cursory check as there was little that he could do
and
> that they were having immense reliability problems with HH (not
> proper ISDN)
> installs at the moment. He said that over 3/4 of his calls were to HH
> installs which were throwing up intermittent and seemingly untraceable
> errors. (Apparently some guy over in Itchen Abbot - a few miles from
us -
> had got so irate he'd actually ripped his off the wall and hurled
> it through
> his window!)
>
> Phil
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ian Lowe [mailto:ian@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 12 May 2001 12:53
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: [ukha_d] Home Highway Box.....
> >
> >
> > Well, it's happened. our intermittant fault on ISDN has caused BT
enough
> > problems that they wish to visit the house, because they suspect
> > the problem
> > might be a "loose connection" to the HH box.
> >
> > I am moving thr box away from node zero back to it's original
home this
> > afternoon, and will be running the Data/Voice connections to node
zero
> > across a fresh pair of CAT-5 I installed from that location up
> > (despite the
> > pain involved in doing so: this was an incredibly difficult
> cabling run to
> > do)
> >
> > For those guys contemplating moving the HH box my advice is now
simple:
> > don't do it.
> >
> > Whilst apparently functioning correctly, there seems to be issues
with
> > distance between the Digital Access box and the HH unit itself,
> > which cause
> > throughput problems.
> >
> > Ian.
> >
> >
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