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ISDN up and running after being jerked around.

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Baldy18

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What an ordeal. I got the ISDN line installed last Wednesday ut was unable to connect to my ISP, that is why I haven't been around since then.

I spent hours on the phone with my ISP, local phone company, and my long distance phone company. ISP and long distance company blamed everything on the local phone company and depending on who I talked to the local phone company blamed everything on either the long distance phone complany or themselves.

The lack of compatence on the part of the local phone company led me to believe that it was their fault. Turns out in the end it was the fault of the local long distance company (same as the long distance company). After switching my local long distance to my local phone company everthing is working fine.

What I learned from this experience? Long distance service from a small company can save you money but let the big guys handle your local long distance if you are getting ISDN. Also I can't wait for cable or DSL internet to become availible in my area.

p.s. For those interested I increased my average download speed from about 7-8K/s (multilink 56k w/ 2 simultanious 56k connections) to 11K/s ISDN (as far as I can tell so far but I'm still testing😉).
 
/me looking for relevant quote from Dilbert cartoon creator. Please hold for laughter.
 
Laughter found. quote from Scott Adams in "The Dilbert Future"

.... I studied the market for ISDN and calculated all it's costs. I found that it was a great technology with no immediate cometition [before cable] and it probably had a large market potential. The only thing that could limit it's sucess was complete incometence on the part of all phone companies, colossal stupidity by every ISDN hardware vendor, and complete idiocy on the part of the regulatory oversight commities.
It was obvios ISDN was doomed.

Prediction 12: In the future ISDN services will improve to the point where you can mention it in a crowd without generating laughter. ( almost true 😛)
 
Or in reference to the tech support and other employees (Also from Scott Adams in The Dilbert Principle):

"competent workers are promoted until they reached their level of incompetence"
 
I thought I was a pretty good manager when I was a manager, but then I got a government job...... 😉
 
Welcome back Matt 😀

Nice to hear from you again

Sorry to hear about your troubles, but glad it worked out in the end.
 
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