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In reply to a post by Taras:

always wanted isdn but it was sooooooooo expensive

Yep! It was insane in the UK, unlike Germany where every phone line was switched to ISDN. I had it at home from my employer, they installed it. It was for remote connection to various customers, not internet access. My Dad's small business had the "home highway" BT product that was a cheaper ISDN for a while.

Broadband and VPNs eventually got rid of it.

I remember home highway - got excited "we are getting a cheap faster internet - but its bt in the 90s* so NOPE AND NOPE AGAIN.

I Think HH was in the late 90s

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I remember home highway - got excited "we are getting a cheap faster internet - but its bt in the 90s* so NOPE AND NOPE AGAIN.

I Think HH was in the late 90s

Agreed; I think late 90s, the days of dial up internet that was 1p/min after 6pm was the same on ISDN, and one 64k channel was the same as a phone call, and two (128k) was a double phone call.

The early 2000s arrived with unmetered dial up from third parties via dialler boxes, and didn't support ISDN, so my Dad got rid of HH and went back to two phone lines. One for 56k dialup that was online all the time, but reconnected every 2 hours. Crazy!

ADSL became cheap in 2002 with Pipex, and this site started to explode with forum posters; joining those of us on the limited cable modem deployments.

My Dad's small business had the "home highway" BT product that was a cheaper ISDN for a while.

{ahem} ‘business highway’ surely ?

Was it really a “highway” or with hindsight more of a semi cobbled lane? 🤣😎

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{ahem} ‘business highway’ surely ?

Self employed sole trader so no, home highway. Despite BT Group trying to enforce business products for domestic premises (to get VAT number on invoice) the HMRC VAT dept didn't care.

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

Was it really a “highway” or with hindsight more of a semi cobbled lane? 🤣😎

Very much cobbles. 😂

Happy new year Taras.

Special thanks to you and all members on these boards who continually give their time so generously to help strangers achieve better broadband.

A belated happy new year to you all.

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In reply to a post by Pheasant:

Was it really a “highway” or with hindsight more of a semi cobbled lane? 🤣😎

Very much cobbles. 😂

sand compared to today's wan speeds that residential premises can enjoy

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

Was it really a “highway” or with hindsight more of a semi cobbled lane? 🤣😎

When I had Home Highway, i did think it was a highway. It just worked, reliably, to its full spec. And if a download ran slow, it was never the Home Hoghway. It was at this point I transitioned to running a router too, so it was my first modern internet connection. Thus was back in the days when ISPs were only permitting 1 machine to use the connection in the T&C's.

Now I have FTTP, I feel that the intervening years of ADSL and FTTC were an aberration, in that you never got the advertised full capability and you were forever trying to tweak linestats, which you never had to do with Home Highway nor have to with FTTP. Well, you couldn't with either.