ISDN!!

Cuddlesworth · 12-06-2012 12:04AM

davetherave wrote: »

With a username like that I should bloody well hope so sunshine :pac:

Cisco have stripped ISDN out of most of their coursework. The closest you will get to it now is Frame Relay.

But since I just had the pleasure of setting up four E1's and two T1's, its obviously not dead.

imitation · 12-06-2012 12:06AM

I remember the bank managed to some how con my parents into getting ISDN for internet banking (as a farm it needed business banking.. and about 5 minutes after the line went in.."ah shure home online banking will do ye").

I was like a dog with two mickeys, no longer did I have to beg to use the phone for a few minutes to have a lash off counter strike, and there was actually a point to the game without it crapping out every 2 minutes. Friends use to look on with envy, some of them didn't even have computers !

After 6 oclock the internet was my playground, I could do some random chatting on IRC or get some songs off Napster and burn them to CD because nobody had invented a mp3 player that could hold more than 2 songs.

Ah yes, those were the days, they were awful !

Mance Rayder · 12-06-2012 12:10AM

davetherave wrote: »

With a username like that I should bloody well hope so sunshine :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xECUrlnXCqk

Mance Rayder · 12-06-2012 12:13AM

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

Cisco have stripped ISDN out of most of their coursework. The closest you will get to it now is Frame Relay.

But since I just had the pleasure of setting up four E1's and two T1's, its obviously not dead.

Sure its alive and kicking in Roscommon! Your right though I barely touched it in the cisco discovery courses.

languagenerd · 12-06-2012 12:13AM

This thread has confirmed to me that I'm still really rather young, thanks :P

(I have no idea what's going on, pretty sure it's cos I wasn't old enough to own a computer in the nineties...)

Mance Rayder · 12-06-2012 12:17AM

languagenerd wrote: »

This thread has confirmed to me that I'm still really rather young, thanks :P

(I have no idea what's going on, pretty sure it's cos I wasn't old enough to own a computer in the nineties...)

pfft 90's I had a computer in the 80's. It was called a digital watch.:pac:

Cuddlesworth · 12-06-2012 12:18AM

languagenerd wrote: »

This thread has confirmed to me that I'm still really rather young, thanks :P

(I have no idea what's going on, pretty sure it's cos I wasn't old enough to own a computer in the nineties...)

Unless you were rich or stupid(see the above farm post) there was no reason anybody should ever install a ISDN line into their house. They still cost a absolute fortune to run.

Stinicker · 12-06-2012 12:28AM

Ah yes, ISDN, i thought it was faster than Dialup but only when you had the twin channels running at 128k. I have used Broadband since 2005 and Dial-up and ISDN were a total pain in hole. Having to wait until 6pm for the lower rate of charges.

Capt'n Midnight · 12-06-2012 01:16AM

Pedant wrote: »

What the hell is a 56k?

absolutely mindblowing compared to 2,400 bps

Canis Lupus · 12-06-2012 01:36AM

ah 56k modem... The days when internet porn still involved imagination as you waited for the picture to load.

alphabeat · 12-06-2012 01:57AM

what about the first wap porn ?

basically about 8 black dots in a picture , you just had to fill in the lines with your imagination .

Firefox11 · 12-06-2012 02:26AM

Pedant wrote: »

What the hell is a 56k?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8XKhCfsTts

danniemcq · 12-06-2012 08:04AM

Canis Lupus wrote: »

ah 56k modem... The days when internet porn still involved imagination as you waited for the picture to load.

hah saving images onto a 3 1/2 floppy, (fnar fnar)

OP has it taken boards this long to load on the connection?

JustAddWater · 12-06-2012 08:12AM

Great Scott!!! It actually worked

Sacramento wrote: »

I just got ISDN into the house and it's soooo good. I bet you're all jealous, so you should be.

Sure, calls cost twice the amount they used to for me (used to cost 1 old pence, now it costs me 2) but now I can actually play MW3 (Mechwarrior 3) and I only have to shoot 5 or 6 mechs ahead of the enemy mech to get him!

Delighted!

JazzyJ · 14-06-2012 11:26AM

Ah ISDN... high speed internet connectivity! :rolleyes:

I moved back from the US in 2001 where I'd free 1MB broadband from NetZero. Arrive back to Ireland and eircom are pushing ISDN as their high-speed solution

.

Can't believe they're still flogging it.

14-06-2012 10:35PM

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

ISDN ? you were lucky to have ISDN, all we had was a modem on a bad line

I had a modem on a bad line, Eircom said that the line was OK and refused to do anything about it! :mad: so I asked to upgrade to ISDN which of course failed.

So Eircom had to replace the entire line back to the exchange to make it work.

Three months later I cancelled and had a perfect analogue line and a modem that worked at 56k.

Now have broadband, but this now and that was then..

MagicMarker · 14-06-2012 10:37PM

JazzyJ wrote: »

Can't believe they're still flogging it.

Loads of businesses still use ISDN, it's almost as widely used as PSTN.

MagicMarker · 14-06-2012 10:39PM

Speaking of WAP phones, I just downloaded the new Sweet Child O' Mine polyphonic ringtone! :cool:

14-06-2012 10:41PM

MagicMarker wrote: »

Loads of businesses still use ISDN, it's almost as widely used as PSTN.

I work in telecoms and almost all businesses we support use ISDN as a backup service in case the DSL service failed.

Agricola · 14-06-2012 10:56PM

Up to 3 years ago I still had a 56k modem which I coaxed a silky 33k out of. Ah those were the soul destroying days.

Capt'n Midnight · 14-06-2012 11:38PM

ah the joys of eircom

back in the days when you would order a new analog line in the hope that you'd win in the line lottery and get a better line and faster internet, while planning to cancel it and order yet another if it didn't, and then ending up having to take two lines because none of them were good and you really needed the band width

I can remember it like it was last year.

Because it was :mad:

Xantia · 27-06-2012 05:02PM

Most SME/Large Enterprise Companies use ISDN but as a Primary Rate with 30 voice channels from various providers, normally with 100 or more Direct Dial In numbers.
Smaller setups use the Basic Rate ISDN with 2 Channels and 10 DDI numbers with 2 Bearer numbers.
Expensive but works well for most users.

Tonto86 · 27-06-2012 05:15PM

Your lucky to have ISDN.... in my day we had to walk 15 miles to get our google search results

ScumLord · 27-06-2012 05:21PM

Pedant wrote: »

What the hell is a 56k?

It's the actual download speed of most Irish broadband.

DoesNotCompute · 27-06-2012 05:25PM

Sacramento wrote: »

I just got ISDN into the house and it's soooo good. I bet you're all jealous, so you should be.

Sure, calls cost twice the amount they used to for me (used to cost 1 old pence, now it costs me 2) but now I can actually play MW3 (Mechwarrior 3) and I only have to shoot 5 or 6 mechs ahead of the enemy mech to get him!

Delighted!

OP, are you dialing in from the past? Is your upload speed so slow that it tooke 13 years to post that message?

ISDN!!

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