[Scottish] [OT] Need an ISP

[Michael Cameron]

Well its a business line so I don't really know what it costs (its billed
centrally).  You have to pay BT (no surprise I'm sure) for rental but I
believe this is now less than getting a 2nd line and you get some call
allowances included in the rental.  ISP costs £30, varies depending on
package, e.g. £10 for a "redeye special" up to £140 for a dedicated port
(which is a lot cheaper than its closest equivalent, getting a leased line).
Throughput of ~15 Kilobytes/sec (bi-directional) is normal when using both
channels (i.e 128Kbps really gives 128Kbps). The speed difference is
obviously not as great as broadband but I don't know anyone using 128K ISDN
instead of BB.  There is the advantage of dial up normally taking less than
1 second (and without the lovely tones of a squeekbox modem too).  If you
have more than 1 user in the house and/or a small network it makes a lot of
sense.  You can generally use 64K ISDN dialup with most ISPs bog standard
unmetered accounts.  Dialup is cheaper but if you get that 2nd line I think
ISDN might turn out more cost effective.



>-----Original Message-----
>From: scottish-admin@mailman.lug.org.uk
>[mailto:scottish-admin@mailman.lug.org.uk]On Behalf Of Phil Deane
>Sent: 27 August 2002 22:32
>To: scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk
>Subject: Re: [Scottish] [OT] Need an ISP
>
>
>On Tuesday 27 August 2002 22:15, Michael Cameron wrote:
>> If you are not likely to be in a broadband area for some time
>you may want
>> to consider ISDN.  Depends what you need but there are now 128K unmetered
>> packages around for ~£30 p.m. and I picked up a router of ebay for £25
>> recently (DSL and cable roll out ensures that ISDN kit is cheap).
>>
>
>
>Is £30pm all you pay? no charges etc? Is the sped difference
>great. What is
>your normal kb/s download?
>
>
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>Phil Deane
>http://www.MiracleExpress.force9.co.uk
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