The Home Highway is �25 per month + �75 startup (if you have a BT line, and a USB port on your gateway computer). It's worth asking if they have (or will have) any deals on the setup charge - I got it for free if I promised to stay for a year but that was in 1999. http://www.bt.com/homehighway/
The �25 pm includes BT together option 1, with a call allowance (read the fine print, because it excludes calls to mobiles), but there are several other choices... http://www.bt.com/homehighway/what_it_costs/bttogether.htm For instance you can add surf anytime for an extra �17 pm. However I went with Freeserve Anytime for �14 pm. This works by giving you a special number for internet dialup which checks your caller-id and then pays BT for the call, so nothing appears on your bill. As I said 24/7 is not acceptable use, and I got several letters threatening to close my Freeserve Anytime account, but when I went to 16/7 they left me alone. Cuts into the P2P though. You are allowed to combine Friends and Family with Home Highway. DO NOT TELL BT THAT THERE IS ANY COMMERCIAL USAGE INVOLVED. YOU WANT THIS INSTALLATION FOR RESIDENTIAL USE ONLY. So I'm paying a total monthly �40 for two lines plus free internet at a true bidirectional 64KB, plus a small amount for voice calls and the very occasional second data call (you dial-up s/w should be able to 'bond' the two calls to make a single 128 KB channel). Freeserve (and probably most ISPs) support this at their end. And under BT together >in the evening< the second call is 6p per hour :) But as I said I have not found any value because most servers cannot keep up (except streaming video, with which >I< cannot keep up). They come and install a special box which multiplexes your line into two ordinary BT sockets (Voice 1 and Voice 2 - each with their own phone number) and a USB connection for your (gateway) computer. The two ISDN channels float across the two voice numbers/ports. If the computer opens a single channel then the remaining one is available for whichever voice line is grabbed (incoming or outgoing) first. Calls to the other number then get a busy tone, and in the house that port gets no dial tone, until the first voice call is finished (or the computer closes its channel). If the computer opens both channels then both voice lines are blocked. Pretty cool really. Neatest is that if the computer makes a call using channel 1 (so that the recipient gets our first phone number as caller id, which is needed by Freeserve Anytime) then incoming calls can still arrive for either phone number via channel 2. BTW, if anything goes tits-up with the exchange or your box everything reverts to a normal single voice line on your voice 1 port. I'm using Windows 2000 Professional with Internet Connection Sharing to let the other computers on the LAN use the connection, and it worked out of the box. I have the free version of Zone Alarm on every machine. Of course, any machine can also use one of the voice lines with a (ugh) modem. This can help for checking email when the gateway machine is in pieces again :) The fact that we can use >either or both< channels for voice calls certainly cuts down on the 'get off the d**n phone' type arguments. But you will want to fix on one of the numbers/channels to make ISP calls with because you have to register a specific number with the Freeserve Anytime account. Also I was given a third number for genuine incoming ISDN calls (but no-one has ever tried it - I guess I don't know enough Germans). Finally, Home Highway is serviced by the ISDN engineers, and they are extremely good, and quick (is this really BT?). First thing you say when you call is "this is an ISDN line" and you are switched to the right people, and they call you back every hour or so until they fix it. You are a first class customer, and they want to keep you. HTH, Duncan -----Original Message----- From: Snake Hollywood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 September 2003 09:06 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] Satelite bradband Can u tell me what this option costs you. My satelite options is costing me �125 per month. > -----Original Message----- > From: Duncan Fenton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 29 September 2003 23:32 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] Satelite bradband > > > If you don't need video, look at home hiway (ISDNe2). It's a > true 64KB > per channel, not like 56K modems where you're lucky to get > 33KB. Since > they count as phone calls, you'd also need an 'anytime' ISP account. > And remember to hang up when you go to sleep, because 24/7 is not > acceptable use of 'anytime' (but so far 16/7 seems to be). > > I use this combination, and browsing is OK. D/L isn't ADSL, > but it is > bearable - most servers are (per connection) no faster than one ISDN > channel anyway, which I have proved (a) bonding both of my > channels to > give 128MB and (b) D/L the same items on a friend's ASDL - > neither was > any faster. > > The key thing is, if you really want streaming video, then > forget ISDN. > You also need to ask yourself what you & you family are going > to do for > TV :-) > > HTH, > Duncan > > -----Original Message----- > From: Snake Hollywood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 26 September 2003 18:10 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [ cf-dev ] Satelite bradband > > > My new house has no ADSL or cable :-( so I am gonn have to > get satelite broadband. Has anyone used this and can > recommend any providers. 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