RE: Bloody BT!

["Steve Morgan" <steve@xxxxxxx>]

How much more expensive would it be to install an ADSL-enabled analogue
line
alongside your ISDN line?

I used to use ISDN2, then analogue for years but the switch to ADSL has
been
a revelation. I've been using ADSL for about 11 months now. Despite BTs
best
efforts, it's been very reliable. Performance is excellent the majority of
the time and the connection really is 'always on'. For the moment, at
least,
you don't have to worry about receiving one of BTs 'special' letters. It
really is a hell of a lot faster than ISDN - when performance drops it's
pretty well always because of problems elsewhere in the network.

You could add an analogue line with ADSL to your existing setup. That way,
you'd retain the benefits of HH, get the connection speeds of ADSL and have
yet another telephone line available - perhaps hang a RAS server off it!
Cost wise, you'd pay for the analogue line installation + line rental over
and above what you'd pay if you could convert your HH line to ADSL.

Oh, yeah, ditch the Proxy Server (MS Proxy 2?) and install Win2K (or even
98) and ZoneAlarm Pro. I used to use Proxy Server before ADSL and I really
don't miss it!

Just a thought.

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Gordon [mailto:paul_gordon@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 1:40 PM
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Bloody BT!


Thing is, I *can* get it, but do I really want to?

I've got ISDN (HH), and AFAIK there's still no direct update from this to
DSL... (of course that may not be true now, as I know they have been
working
on this, but I haven't heard anything for quite a while).

Also, I guess they're going to try & stick me for a 150 upgrade fee to
change to DSL, (even though I pre-registered 2 years ago to avoid this), as
when they offered me the DSL upgrade about a year ago, I turned it down for
several reasons.

....One of which is that they were (and still are?) offering ONLY a USB
modem
on the "home" service, (and I want an ethernet one). This would
totally **CK
up my network infrastructure, as my Proxy server is currently running on
NT4
(so no USB support..)

....Another of which is that I will lose my additional phone numbers, one
of
which is currently used as my home FAX number, so once again I would be
losing functionality.

All in all, apart from being potentially faster (and even that's not
guaranteed because of the contention ratios), DSL is, point for point, in
every way an inferior offering to HH/ISDN...

Oh, and did I mention it would also be more expensive, because my HH charge
includes 15/month inclusive calls, which I'll lose by "upgrading"
to DSL...


Paul G.