RE: Home Highway Box.....

["Graham Howe" <graham@xxxxxxx>]

I have had true ISDN2e with TA (and now a router as well) for three years.
I
find it excellent. I have a SpeedDragon TA which gives me three analogue
lines that I have mapped to my three phone number giving home phone,
business phone and fax. The home phone is now split to five phone sockets
via Krone blocks, patch panel and CAT5. The business phone is split
similarly apart from the fact that Comfort is included in the chain.

All is working fine, in fact I got a little worried last weekend, we were
all in town doing some shopping and I got a call on the mobile. I looked at
the screen and it showed 'Home' calling. For a moment I thought 'who the
hell is in our house' then when I took the call, Comfort said 'Battery
Warning'. I had of course not connected the battery to the alarm system.

As for the cost, there are numerous discounts available for business users
that seem to make up for the increase rental. For example the vast majority
of my phone bill is made up of my wife calling her mother in Ireland, but
with various business options I get a 27% discount on that number. Also
with
the 133 quid per quarter line rental, you get about 50 quid call allowance,
so all in all it works out about the same cost as two normal lines. Of
course there is one little disadvantage with being completely digital, no
phone during a power cut, but of course that is why God invented mobiles
;-)

Graham




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