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It's all just so expensive....
According to the site, you could use it if you paid for the calls instead of using SurfTime - sounds like you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.
0.6p per minute evenings and nights (Mon - Fri, 6pm - midnight, midnight - 8am)
0.5p per minute weekends (midnight Friday - midnight Sunday)
SurfTime - 7/mth = 1400 minutes at weekends = 23hrs. Using both channels, you would be limited to 12hrs a month before you were losing money again. I can see why you are on SurfTime - don't be quite so upset about the bandwidth - you might have it available but it'll cost you an arm and a leg to access it!
Thereagain, if you paid 45/mth with no SurfTime you'd have a 60/mth call allowance for an extra 14. That would give you 100hours a month at DUAL channel speed free of charge per month (1p/min at dual rate = 6,000 minutes for 60), PLUS the extra 7/mth you wouldn't be paying - another 14hrs. Did you think about it that way? (Still a hefty price tag compared to ADSL - thanks BT.)
http://www.bt.co.uk/isdn/isdn2e/price_info/price_options.htm
(You might need to register with BT to see it).
Total price per month: 56.75 for 114hrs at dual channel, 228 at single channel.
I've just re-ordered the lowest spec RADSL from eclipse, (110 setup + 22.75/mth, equivalent to 32.08/mth for the 12mth contract) just to prove that the lowest possible rate is still impossible (according to BT). Only when they turn me down for that (which they 99% likely will) does ISDN become an option - at more than double the price - setup of ISDN is 200 from BT.
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