> 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.
Going from cable to ISDN isn't too bad , currently i've gone from ISDN to a 14.4 modem - now thats bad. > 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. You get a box on your wall ( that requires a power supply ) , this box contains four sockets , two for analogue phones , two for ISDN lines. You can only use two of these sockets at any one time , but the configuration is up to you ( dual ISDN , two phone lines , one ISDN plus one phone line ). You also get an extra socket on an external box which doesnt require a power supply. This allow you to use an analogue phone or modem on the home highway setup even if the power is off. > Does anyone else use this service? It is worth it and reliable? As you can tell from the above , i had business highway ( the same as home highway ) for more than a year until recently. Its definately worth it if you can't get broadband , you almost get that "net on tap" feel like broadband as you can setup dial on demand and there's only a two second delay before a connection is made. It is rock solid reliable , more so than modems , cable or adsl. > 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. You can surf and chat at the same time , or as i often did have two connections running at the same time , one to work and the other as a normal net connection. You'll be hard pushed to find an ISP that will allow you to use both lines for the 128k access ( i think demon do it from memory ) , but remember its effectively two connections , that means twice the call charges or two accounts with your ISP ( not sure about the latter ). > 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? I have an ELSA MicroLink ISDN PCI card in my linux box ( SuSE 7.1 ) , �40.41 from Jungle and it was recognised by SuSE as soon as i told it to look for an ISDN card , did not have to configure anything. Having been messed around by BT over the last few days , my analogue line cannot get more than an unreliable 14.4 due to an electric fence somewhere between me and the exchange and BT's Satellite Broadband still not showing its ugly head , i've just requested another Home Highway installation to tide me over. Hope this helped, KW -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
