Exactly how does ISDN work?

[henniedebeer]

This is from Telkom itself: The area I live in is considered RURAL, and they don't have plans to upgrade (or repair IMHO) the telecoms infrastructure in the next ten years.

This sucks. The Northern Cape is the largest province in South Africa, right? And the least-regarded, it seems.

I guess the answer might be to start up your own ISP, but I'm not really that brave. Or wait, I love a challenge. This might be fun.

 

[Tpex]

This is from Telkom itself: The area I live in is considered RURAL, and they don't have plans to upgrade (or repair IMHO) the telecoms infrastructure in the next ten years.

This sucks. The Northern Cape is the largest province in South Africa, right? And the least-regarded, it seems.

I guess the answer might be to start up your own ISP, but I'm not really that brave. Or wait, I love a challenge. This might be fun.

size doesn't matter, its the population, but wasn't there a program to bring internet to rural communities?

 

[henniedebeer]

Not around here. I think that was up in North West / Limpopo.

 

[ponder]

I guess the answer might be to start up your own ISP, but I'm not really that brave. Or wait, I love a challenge. This might be fun.

Well if you can get all the farmers involved and they plant masts with line of site to each other you guys could set up a wireless network/mesh to some place where there is adsl or you guys could club in for a leased line service to an ISP. On this you could all share a mail/cache/proxy/file server so you can share files and stuff etc. There has been some amazing wireless range records set out there.

'n boer maak 'n plan

 

[MidnightWizard]

ISDN

This sucks. The Northern Cape is the largest province in South Africa, right? And the least-regarded, it seems.

Least population

I guess the answer might be to start up your own ISP, but I'm not really that brave. Or wait, I love a challenge. This might be fun.

Cisco ISDN

I used to have ISDN before ADSl was available
You CAN tame it -- the problem is that you are billed as per normal telephone calls ( it is not an "always-on" technology like ADSL.)

Telkom used to have something called "infini-call" you could be online from 07h00 pm to 0700am for R7.00 which would be R14.00 if you used both channels.

I am not sure what the costs are now with the closer plans.

You cannot do a self-install with ISDN but it should cost the same as an ADSL Telkom install.

ISDN is synchronous -- ie you get 128kb up as well as down -- ADSL 384 only has 128kb upstream so in this respect you are the same.

There was talk about using the D channel for data as well ( email ) but Telkom never implemented that part of the standard.

ISDN is a bit more complex to set up -- but if you want fun -- then this should satisfy you // FRUSTRATE you -- Cisco 803 Threads )

If you still want ISDN give me a shout as I have a Cisco 803 ISDN router which I could consider selling.

Cisco 803 ISDN Router

Has two POTS ports so that you do not need the NTU 2A

 

[Greggetsmart]

I really don't want to go Telkom, but iBurst and Neotel don't operate here.
Check with Neotel for rollout in your area. Think they will be releasing a few pigeons shortly, they could be disorientated but would appreciate a new flight path!