RE: ADSL & HH Questions, Sorry....

["Keith Doxey" <ukha@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Steve,

It depends on how far the house is from the exchage and whatever els you
have on the line.

Before HH I had two analogue lines, one for voice, one for data.

On my voice line with all the phones and stuff, my modem ( Pace 56K ) would
connect at around 33K6, occasionally slightly faster, sometimes less. :-(

On my Data line where it was the only device on there it would normally
connect at 40K, sometimes 38K6 sometimes 41K3.

Once I had home highway installed I obviously had a 64K ISDN connection,
the
ability to still use 2 analogue numbers for different purposes eg Phone and
Ex-Directory phone and almost instant connect to the internet rather than
almost a minute of handshaking to train the modem up.

Out of interest, I connected my modem to the analogue port of HH and it
connected at 50K EVERYTIME.

I should add that I am not very far from the exchange ( I can walk there in
5 minutes) but the cables in the ground are quite old so probabley a bit
ropey.

When I had HH removed in preparation for ADSL is was a nightmare. My Dialup
speed with everything on one line was on average 33K6, we had no phone
whilst surfing and I longed for my HH back. I have now had ADSL for 12 days
and it is wonderful. I dont know how you can contemplate going back  to a
modem. HH should be the minimum you should go for.

Keith

www.diyha.co.uk
www.kat5.tv


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Dickson [mailto:steve@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 29 April 2003 01:01
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] ADSL & HH Questions, Sorry....
>
>
> I'm just about to move house and will consequently loose my
> ADSL connection
> :-(  , no cable either.
>
> I've been looking at a HH setup as an alternative to normal
> dialup, price
> wise with a decent ISP and the BT Together scam it's not much
> difference in
> price really.  My question really is will I see a real
> difference between HH
> and 56K modem to really justify the extra expence.  I
> understand that ISDN
> can't perform some of the compression that a normal modem can
> and thus there
> ain't any real advantage for http etc, only really coming
> into it's own for
> downloading zip files, jpegs etc.
>
> I'm not a heavy user and won't have a any servers running
> 24/7 for a long
> whilst, just want a decent connection for genaral email and
> home surfing,
> eventually comfort use. Unfortunatly don't really have the
> luxury of time at
> work anymore since leaving the telecoms industry.
>
> What will I need to share the connection across my network
> and wireless,
> currently using an adsl router.  Will a cheap ebay isdn
> router do the same
> thing or am I missing the point, I see there are some fancy
> lan routers from
> 3com etc?  I see the NT9 now has a usb port built in - can
> this be used with
> ICS across XP pro / home edition,  win2K, and 98SE without
> any significant
> perfomance issues.  There won't be significant simultaneous
> use of any of
> the machines?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Steve
>
>
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