Hi There, I use BT Home Highway and it is OK. The deal is you get 2 analogue and 2 digi lines but you can only use a total of two lines at once (ie one phone and one PC or two phone or two PC). Download rates are OK, about 9 - 11KBS with one channel connected.
I use the BT Card, which is actually as repackaged Fritz PCI Card. It uses the HiSAX module found in ISDN4LINUX. It autodetected in RH 7.0 upwards. It is no bother to set up at all (if I can do it ....) I have had this for about a year and so far have had only one outage lasting about half an hour. Just watch that BT do not want to charge a bundle for installation, they wanted about �200 but this is bound to be cheaper now. It is a far better option than a second analogue line (IMHO). Hope that is of some help, Cheers Mike On Thursday 22 November 2001 22:28, Tam McLaughlin wrote: > Hi, > I will shortly be moving which is great apart from having to give up > my NTL 512kb cable modem as NTL in the area. aawww. > I found that BT offer a service called home highyway which gives you > 2 phone lines and 2 digital lines - must be 2 64k ISDN lines) and > free local calls in the evening and w/e for �29. > Does anyone else use this service? > It is worth it and reliable? AFAIK there is no ADSL in Glasgow and > would cost too much for me anyway. > A second line would cost an additional �12.50 line rental so its only > a few pounds extra a month for the home highway service. > BT said that I can only use 2 lines at once, meaning that If I wanted > to recieve incomming calls, I could only use 1 64k ISDN channel. > > For this service, I need an ISDN adapter card. Can anyone recommend > a decent ISDN adapter card for linux or will most work without any > problems? -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
