In message <[log in to unmask]> "Ahmad Risk" writes:
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>BT have just informed me that in order to have my site hosted on
>their "Internet" site (HealthWeb), I will have to have a physical
>connection to NHSnet and that they only allow ISDN2 connections.
>
>Why?
>Why?
>Why?
>
I already asked the BT man this question and he obviously did not
have a good answer. He used the "ISDN's a quality solution"
argument, implying that the service is really aimed at companies who
are maintaining very large quantities of data on their pages, for
which ISDN just might be more cost-effective than PSTN I suppose. I
do not know what the break-even point might be in terms of data flow,
but it must be very large. We update our WWW server by ftping files
over a 14.4 pstn line, typically ~100k at a time, which when zipped
take a few seconds to send and costs next to nothing.
If I were BT's ISDN sales people, of course, I'd try and get the
other divisions to insist that their customers use ISDN as much as
possible. But I have no evidence that is happening here.
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