Dear listees,
I'm reopening a thread that started way back in November last year...
To surmise...I am moving to a part of North Herts that has no ADSL or Cable
access to the internet. The only phone company that operates in the village
is BT. The house I'm moving to is already fitted with BT Highway : which
from what I understand gives me 1 ISDN line and 2 'normal' lines.
Hi David,
I stand to be corrected (and not by BT BTW 'cos they know bugger all), but AFAIK, much like ISDN, you have two "channels" on BT Highway, same as you do on ISDN. If that's the case, you should be able to "bond" them to give you 128k - you lose your voice line at this point. Not sure exactly what the box is on the wall, but if it has your usual BT type sockets plus a network type socket, you should be able to plug in a router or an ISDN type card and bond the two channels. Failing that, you can convert the Highway to ISDN - when I moved into my new studio, broadband was not available, but I could have ISDN - having paid to have that installed, three months down the line I can now have broadband (in April at least) - although as you would expect, I now have to pay again to have the ISDN converted to broadband - robbing b****ds.
I have used Pipex with ISDN for around 5 years - about three of that with 128k bonding available - I find them very helpful and 99% reliable. I've just pre-booked my ADSL through them...
Hope this helps. Have a good w/e.
Regards,
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