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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Martin_1962 on 26 December 2006, 19:14:49
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Got one here - are they any good?
Comes with my BB install (booked for tomorrow) - will be interesting to see what performance differences there are.
I was quite attached to 128 ISDN but it was expensive
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Got one here - are they any good?
Comes with my BB install (booked for tomorrow) - will be interesting to see what performance differences there are.
I was quite attached to 128 ISDN but it was expensive
They'd better be good, the rather hype they've been getting!
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They have issues, but most of them can be overcome. Wireless side appears to be strong...
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Well I might find out how good it is in five working days
BT SCREWED UP!!!!
They lost my install I have had ISDN ripped out and I am resorting to hamster wheel internet.
No instructions to engineer to do broadband he is apologetic and the best BT can do is pay my dialup and 2 months free BB when I eventually get it.
I won't be on too much until enabled also the phone doesn't work either :'( >:( >:( >:( >:(
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Well I might find out how good it is in five working days
BT SCREWED UP!!!!
They lost my install I have had ISDN ripped out and I am resorting to hamster wheel internet.
No instructions to engineer to do broadband he is apologetic and the best BT can do is pay my dialup and 2 months free BB when I eventually get it.
I won't be on too much until enabled also the phone doesn't work either :'( >:( >:( >:( >:(
It will be worth it in the end :)
Though, remember, you still have to go through the 10 days of pain once enabled, as you will be on MaxDSL (iirc, BT only do MaxDSL now on consumer broadband). There is a 10 day 'training' period with Max, the first 3 days being the worse....
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mines ok. wireless is good range and the additional bt phone is handy for cheap calls. any probs is just a reset away by pulling the power for a min. tone.
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Mine is fine except one smll problem. Good wireless connection all round the house unless I am less than 2 metres from the hub and then it can't cope. I can even be in my garden or on my drive in the car.
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mines ok. wireless is good range and the additional bt phone is handy for cheap calls. any probs is just a reset away by pulling the power for a min. tone.
IIRC, BT still charge for VoIP to VoIP calls?
I use Sipgate for my VoIP stuff - get a decent local number, and its free to call many other VoIP providers (esp the relatives in Canada). I use a Linksys VoIP adapter, so its presented to my Nostar switch as normal PSTN.
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Well I might find out how good it is in five working days
BT SCREWED UP!!!!
They lost my install I have had ISDN ripped out and I am resorting to hamster wheel internet.
No instructions to engineer to do broadband he is apologetic and the best BT can do is pay my dialup and 2 months free BB when I eventually get it.
I won't be on too much until enabled also the phone doesn't work either :'( >:( >:( >:( >:(
It will be worth it in the end :)
Though, remember, you still have to go through the 10 days of pain once enabled, as you will be on MaxDSL (iirc, BT only do MaxDSL now on consumer broadband). There is a 10 day 'training' period with Max, the first 3 days being the worse....
So what is MaxDSL? and what is a training period?
I'm beginning to wish I'd contacted UKOnline and asked fixed price 128k until end of ISDN day.
Are all ISPs as incompetent as Onetel and BT?
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So what is MaxDSL? and what is a training period?
MaxDSL is the name for the newer ADSL (not ADSL2) that is 'up to 8Mb'. As its not a fixed speed product like the older 512k, 1M, 2M etc products, BT's DSLAM equipment does various tests over first few days to try to find the fastest speed.
I'm beginning to wish I'd contacted UKOnline and asked fixed price 128k until end of ISDN day.
No you don't. Unless you use the specific ISDN features (not available on Home Highway - was yours HH or proper ISDN), ISDN was not much better than modem (apart from 2s connection time). And due to the way bonding worked, that wasn't brilliant either. I went from Home Highway to 512k ADSL, completely changed the way I used Internet.
Are all ISPs as incompetent as Onetel and BT?
No.
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Well at best modem is half as fast.
I used to get sub 1 second connection, but wasn't quite as good as the ISDN we had at work (256kbps midband just before BB hit Inkberrow)
So will I get better speeds if I hammer it?
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Oh and when I was ratty I was using both lines on the internet - that was not bad
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Well at best modem is half as fast.
I used to get sub 1 second connection, but wasn't quite as good as the ISDN we had at work (256kbps midband just before BB hit Inkberrow)
So will I get better speeds if I hammer it?
On my max line, I get around 150kB at peak times, and around 400 - 500kB in middle of night. That compares to 12 - 13kB I used to get off bonded ISDN.
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10x sounds good - can't stand dialup modem though!
20 minutes to load the unreads from GC