On Friday, March 28, 2003, at 05:46 PM, Tim Ainsworth wrote:
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.
Tim
You are right about being able to use 1 line at 64K or both lines (as you say - then losing the voice line) at 128K. However the switching is done by the digital "modem" software, at least that's how it worked when I was on Highway on a Mac before I went onto cable. I originally used a miniVigor (on OS9) and then a Hermstedt webshuttle on OSX. BT did change the rules not long before I cam off it, restricting the total connection time per day, and (I think) continuous connection time, but as I switched to cable 8 months ago I can't now remember the details.
BTW David, I still have the miniVigor lying around somewhere if (as i think you have) you have gone back to OS9.
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