Peter Parry wrote:

ISDN with a no time limit account (Surf time or something as was). I
used this for some years with Demon prior to Broadband and its
performance was very good. Effectively it is an always on service as

It can be OK - I used this setup for a year or two. There are a few
gottchas though: If you run windows XP you find it is very "net happy"
and will tend to trigger a dialup at any provocation. It gets quite
expensive by the time you have bought ISDN, Demon Premier Connect Plus,
and Surf Anytime - you are in for 60/month. Not sure if they have a
better setup now, but it was not possible to channel bond (i.e. get the
128K connection) and have both calls placed to the surf anytime number.
The Bandwidth Allocation on Demand facility only worked on the non surf
time POPs as well. To get 128K you lose your phone for the duration
(unless you have another POTS line as well). Lastly, 128K is still dog
slow in this day and age!

However it it is all you can get - then it is way better than plain dialup.

dial on demand connects in about 1-2 seconds. Data transfer rates
were, in practice, far better than modem speeds as ISDN only ever
runs at one rate unlike modems which do whatever they like.

Yup and if you run router with NAT you get your whole network online.


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Cheers,

John.

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