[plug] adsl opinions

[Luke Dudney]

Not necessarily.
ADSL is continually touted by Telstra as a "best effort" service. If 
you've ever dealt with Telstra you can imagine what "best effort" means 
to them.
ISDN on the other hand is a guaranteed service.
With ADSL you have no such guarantee of uptime, throughput or latency. 
They can over-subscribe an exchange (eg. Bateman) and still be providing 
the service they've sold you.
ISDN on the other hand gives you a guaranteed throughput circuit (data 
calls are flagged as priority on the telephone network).

This is all based on Telstra's offering. I have had no experience with 
Optus's or heard of the services you've described here, so I can't say 
if the same will be true for those.

Cheers
Luke



Martin wrote:

>that's so funny i almost fell off my chair.
>
>ISDN is the technology that is going to go by the wayside. optus have
>started to offer products which include multiple phonelines and/or data
>connections over ADSL rather then ISDN/Onramp/E1...
>
>i'd check that the people your talking to haven't just come back from
>Telstra's "Marketing An Obsolete Technology 101"...
>
>marty
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>You look to ones you love to ask them why?
>You look to ones you love to justify, why?
>You turn around and life's passed you by,
>Passed you by again.
>
>"There Goes the Fear" - Doves
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