On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, Alan Lord wrote: > Gordon Henderson wrote: >> On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Alan Lord wrote: > <snip /> >>> 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. > > Yes, I think it was called Home Highway (but it *is* just a BRI at the > end of the day). It had a USB port on the NTE which I never really > grokked. Not being a Windows user and all.
Yup. Home Highway. It was good at the time - I had it, so I could have what was effectively a 64K leased line Internet connection and still make calls. ADSL Broadband more or less killed it. You didn't quite get all the features of ISDN2e that I recall, however I don't ever recall ever wanting to use those features... And it was home powered rather than line powered, but that's progress for you... >>> 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. > > LOL - That's a good one. I know - they always tell me that the call "may" be being recorded too. I put them out of their misery by teling the call definately is being recorded - by me :) BT - Great bits of technology, forward thinking network features, etc. (Eg. TXT to speech as mentioned in another thread here), however they're driven by corp-rat decision makers being poked by greedy share-holders )-: Gordon _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
