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Ray Smith wrote:
It's incredible how many calls we get every day from people with problems with isdn & adsl.
Hmm the word from Eclipse was that some of the BT ADSL cards were suspect or some such, leading to some bizarre disconnect problem. I think they switched from Alcatel without sufficient testing.
Interestingly I only today had some more training on isdn & all I would say to anyone considering it is there is no way I would ever use it myself. Too expensive, too unreliable & too damn hard to figure out what's gone wrong when it does although I might be persuaded to do a short faq on common isdn problems and self tests for home highway boxes if someones interested.
I think the secret is not to use the options and varieties around, BT predominantly support home highway, and thus keep the options as thin as possible. Besides I thought Home highway users were suppose to call 0800 525 111 not 154.... ISDN set up here is Home Highway with Anytime. I've had very few BT related problems, although they had real trouble swapping the two lines/numbers around! Noticed a couple of problems on Monday mornings - so thing happens some Mondays early on. The Linux driver I use for it aren't brilliant, probably ought to upgrade the kernel, and switch to a recent version of ISDN4Linux, I'm using the normal pppd, and Hisax driver, but the odd problems I get are frequent enough to irritate, but not frequent enough to bother fixing, easier just to have a script redial when it disconnects or stops for other reason. Scott Adams dedicates a whole chapter to the vaguaries of ISDN and how badly thought out it is. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.