yesbut wrote on Mar 29
th, 2008 at 12:03pm:
I have ISDN because I do voiceovers down the line...this is an established technology for us VO's, works well, and will be around for a good few years yet...and given that I have paid for it already I might as well use it for my telephony needs, no?
An ISDN line is 64k or 128 if bonded to another one (which doubles the costs) but a broadband line is usually between 1000k and 7000k downstream (dependent on location) but around 448k upstream usually regardless of location. Added to that ISDN lines have specific additional rental costs which could be deployed towards a decent broadband line. It sounds to me like a classic case of someone who has been doing this for years not keeping up with technolgical change and this costing them more money than investing in new equipment that would work with broadband. ISDN is yesterday's technology and is very over priced as well.
Quote:Genuine enquiry from genuine person, genuinely trying to get along, genuinely trying to do the sensible thing
OK fair enough but I think it is your being wedded to ISDN and the old equipment that you use in conjunction with it that is really the issue here.
And no all broadband should not be judged by downmarket shysters like Talktalk who try to squeeze 15 customers in to a pint pot intended for one customer. If you take your broadband from a decent provide like
www.adsl24.co.uk,
www.newnet.co.uk,
www.idnet.co.uk or
www.zen.co.uk then it is far faster, cheaper and more reliable than ISDN.