On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Alan Lord wrote:
Phil Knighton wrote:
Hello all
What I'm looking for is some plain speaking advice on ISDN.
Currently using 4 analog lines connecting via a four port TDM400P FXO
card. We need to physically move our installations, and on requesting
the analog lines be moved - our telco (BT) is suggesting we replace our
analog lines with ISDN2. We would have 3 x ISDN2 connections, giving us
six voice channels. They've even offered us free installation of the
lines (as opposed to a £560 charge for moving the analog lines!)
Wow, you are lucky.
I used to have an ISDN-2 line into my home office. BT wrote to me about
2 years ago and said they were discontinuing the service. They converted
my dual channel BRI back into a single POTS.
Sure it was ISDN2e and not Home or Business Highway? They killed off an
the HH and BG lines some time back and converted them back to POTS. I've
no idea why - I'd cancelled my HH line some time before the cut-off date.
I built a little Asterisk server, stuck an X100p in it for backup calls
should my broadband go down (on a separate POTS line) and got two
non-geo 0844 IAX trunks for free instead.
Who lost out there then?
Well, quite. BT have their good points, but also their stupidly bad points
too.
They phone me up once a month at present and ask me why I'm not placing
any outgoing calls with them. When I try to tell them why, (because I run
my own phone company!) because my reply is not in the script, they just
hang up on me.
Gordon
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