David, Yep.
Telstra doesn't switch data calls out of the country to other carriers like AAPT and so on. Only voice calls can be selected with the carriers override codes. The international data rates are at least 8 times the voice rates. Whats the difference? Aren't both digitally switched without compression? The funniest thing is asking Telstra to explain why other international carriers can call Australia much cheaper (ISDN data) than Telstra can return the phone call with. For the sake of fair competition - everyone should use DOV for international data calls (if it works). At least you don't have to live with a monopoly that way. Luke -----Original Message----- From: David Fitch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 5 April 2002 3:17 PM To: Luke McKee Cc: SLUG Subject: Re: [SLUG] config for DoV ISDN? On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 02:53:44PM +1000, Luke McKee wrote: > David, > > Yeah you sound very experienced on the matter. on isdn4linux? no, just guessing/figuring it out. on isdn in general and telstra onramp, a bit more so. > "Standard telephone equipment" - I know that line. > ISDN isn't "standard" so Telstra can do whatever they bloody please with it. more or less yes. The ACA (who were AUSTEL, ie the govt) mandate a certain standard of service, fault response times etc etc for a standard telephone service to ensure all Australians have affordable access to a phone. Well that's the PR line anyway. ISDN is more business/corporate apparently (despite telstra marketing the ORHH for home use). > And where is Austel now to correct their vague definition of "standard > telephone equipment"? happily pretending everyone has a PSTN line for voice and some oddballs have a second PSTN line for fax or modem. > You can't even make ISDN data calls out of the country via a different > carrier because ISDN data "isn't standard". You can with ISDN voice calls. you sure (about data)? not that I've tried but telstra's ORHH website gives the impression international data calls will work (well they give pricing for them anyway). > I know about the bills it hasn't hit me personally though... yes, I'm aware of a couple of organisations who've been hit by it (that or misconfigured routers that rack up large numbers of flagfalls) > I'm giving DOV a go internationally soon. Has anyone had any success with > this? no, maybe ask on an ISP forum... > The NT1 inbuilt ISDN modem Telstra gives home users *may* use DOV. > The user guide suggested it was possible but until I have a play I can't be > sure. One of the windows .inf drivers was for single, the other was for > multilink and the 3rd is for DOV. I'll have look in there to see if it has > the dial string to do DOV. If not there's always the SBUS port... oh well give it a go and see... Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
