Midband Prices Officially Announced
. surely no one is going to take up this serice? 
09 May 2003, 02:42 PM
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Steve - I have HH and pay 2xlocal call charges when using the 128K service. i.e it's then using both 'phone lines. (With BTOpenworld anyway). I rarely use the 128K esxcept when downloading something fairly large. But I'd guess that Midband would be similar as the other costs are identical to HH.
Don't think I'll *upgrade* ...
Dave
PS: went for HH 'cos ADSL doesn't work at my house (but it does at several neighbours who I know for a fact are actually furthur from the exchange than me!!) and I needed two 'phone lines....
09 May 2003, 07:51 PM
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It's a shame they don't introduce IDSL (ISDN DSL) which combines the two B channels and D signalling channel of an ISDN2 circuit to give you an IDSL connection of 144K - but I guess that would kill ISDN stone dead and ISDN is something that BT makes a lot of money out of.
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09 May 2003, 11:29 PM
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The official rhetoric mentions that the £35 includes two phone lines (which it does, by definition). I pay NTL £48.49 per month for two phone lines and 600 kbit/s broadband. IIRC the 128 kbit/s (now 160 kbit/s) cable service is 16.99 so for two phone lines + broadband that would be £40.49 per month.
Of course the two key differentiators are:
1) I can use both phone lines and the cable modem if I choose
2) I actually need and want two phone lines.
If you only want one phone line and net access, it doesn't look such great value
Of course the two key differentiators are:
1) I can use both phone lines and the cable modem if I choose
2) I actually need and want two phone lines.
If you only want one phone line and net access, it doesn't look such great value
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10 May 2003, 04:40 PM
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YOU can also have an "always on" connection with no extra charge after a certain amount of hours
That's the bit I'm p1$$ed about 'cos I reckon there's 720 hours roughly in a month & even 160 hrs a month @ a very conservative business rate of 20 days & 8 hrs in a working month - means that I/wifey can't work from home full time as we'd like to
I can live with 64/128k throughput as its workable with all my VPN stuff (128 obviously better than 64) but its that maximum hours bit.
YOU can also have an "always on" connection with no extra charge after a certain amount of hours
That's the bit I'm p1$$ed about 'cos I reckon there's 720 hours roughly in a month & even 160 hrs a month @ a very conservative business rate of 20 days & 8 hrs in a working month - means that I/wifey can't work from home full time as we'd like to
I can live with 64/128k throughput as its workable with all my VPN stuff (128 obviously better than 64) but its that maximum hours bit.
10 May 2003, 08:42 PM
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How far is your local exchange from the trigger threshold, or is it a question of distance?
AFAIK the trigger threshold has recently been lowered and the distance limits increased.
AFAIK the trigger threshold has recently been lowered and the distance limits increased.
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