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anniel
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Reg'd: Sat
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Loc: UK
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My daughter has two sons, both net addicts and can never ring up because they are on their PC.
Can anyone advise which is the cheapest ISDN service..I understand this would enable her to have a split telephone line.
She cannot get broadband as she lives in a very small town in Gloucestershire where Broadband has not yet penetrated.
As she is a single parent we are trying to find out which is the cheapest and most reliable service. I have looked at Net4Nowt and ISPreview, but I would like some personal experience to guide us.
I am not sure what switching to IDSN entails..does it mean she has to pay for BT to change her connection and then pay them a monthly fee as well as paying the ISP?
You can see I am somewhat confused as I am lucky to have a great Broadband service from Homechoice, who are really very good and worth every penny of the £30 monthly I pay for a 1 MB connection.
I really would love some advice in plain English, as I am not a techie.
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Barney_Rubble
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Can't help with broadband or ISDN, Anniel, but beware of BT's "together" deals.
It's a couple of years now since I got bitten, and I'm aware that things have changed, so it could be that this is out of date.
I didn't have a credit card at the time, so couldn't pay the ISP direct. If I had, I think I'd only have had to pay their advertised charge, but I went through BT instead, signing nothing, but agreeing verbally to their "together" deal and then going off to "mouse click" (as opposed to "sign") up to an ISP.
At that time I think I was supposed to pay about £10 a month to the ISP, but BT added a similar amount for the "together" part of the rip-off.
I know of people who didn't get caught by this scam, so can only assume it was the lack of a credit card that made the difference. Had I been able to deal direct with the ISP, I wouldn't have had to pay BT anything, so really (unless I'm mistaken) I was paying BT £30 a quarter for nothing.
Whatever you do, BT are going to know about it, so there's no deception involved, but just don't tell them anything or you could end up paying double.
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greysts
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Reg'd: Thu
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Loc: Colchester
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Hi
I've picked this thread up rather late but this might be of some help. Up to about a year ago I was using BT Home Highway which is ISDN. When it is installed you actually get three t/p numbers. Two of them are for internet connection and each give you 64k. Some ISP's will allow you to join these two lines together to get 128k. The third number is your ordinary t/p line. If you go to this BT site it will give you all the prices but it isn't a cheap option. The site makes it very difficult to work out exactly how much it will cost you but it seems to be saying a conversion fee of £75 plus a minimum of £25 a month and call charges on top of that.
From a users point of view I found it worked very well. I was able to use the two ISDN lines to connect my work and home PC to get 64k on each. Using both in that way stops the t/p line but with only one PC connected the t/p line becomes available.
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