Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Alan Lord wrote: <snip /> >> I used to have an ISDN-2 line into my home office. BT wrote to me about >> 2 years ago and said they were discontinuing the service. They converted >> my dual channel BRI back into a single POTS. > > Sure it was ISDN2e and not Home or Business Highway? They killed off an > the HH and BG lines some time back and converted them back to POTS. I've > no idea why - I'd cancelled my HH line some time before the cut-off date.
Yes, I think it was called Home Highway (but it *is* just a BRI at the end of the day). It had a USB port on the NTE which I never really grokked. Not being a Windows user and all. >> I built a little Asterisk server, stuck an X100p in it for backup calls >> should my broadband go down (on a separate POTS line) and got two >> non-geo 0844 IAX trunks for free instead. >> >> Who lost out there then? > > Well, quite. BT have their good points, but also their stupidly bad > points too. > > They phone me up once a month at present and ask me why I'm not placing > any outgoing calls with them. When I try to tell them why, (because I > run my own phone company!) because my reply is not in the script, they > just hang up on me. LOL - That's a good one. Alan _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
