Are there any ShowRoom Plus customers still in this group?

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2 total messages Started by Brian {Hamilton Kelly} Thu, 05 Jun 2003 23:16

#355

Author: Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 23:16

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At one time, there were a number of regular posters to this group that
had either Demon's ShowRoom Plus product, or an NDU account.  Either had
the luxury of being able to connect at 128kb/s using a SurfTime (g5)
telephone number (24/7, if they wished).

Are any of them still here?  Does the service still work as well as ever,
both for single- and dual-channel connections?  In particular, have you
noticed any change to the monthly fee (since the website seems to suggest
that there's nowadays _very_ attractive pricing)?  I wonder if there's
still a hefty "set-up fee"?

(I did make a more explicit post in <news:demon.ip.www> for the
[intended] obscurity.  However, it appears to have been too obscure :-)

My reason for wanting to be obscure is that I'm unsure whether Demon
could handle the connections were every ISDN-using customer to want to
convert to ShowRoom Plus.  OTOH, I suppose, nowadays many who might have
wanted that facility will have migrated to ADSL.  Here where I live BT
have just this week (Tuesday[1]) reached the trigger level for my
exchange, but I would never give up all the _other_ features of ISDN
merely to be able to get ADSL.

[1] By a spooky coincidence, the day before an open meeting for the
townsfolk bringing "broadband" to their attention, including displays by
companies providing means other than ADSL-over-POTS, such as satellite,
wireless, and also a presentation by someone from BT.  I managed to ask
that man why BT don't deliver ADSL-over-ISDN, as is done extensively in
both Germany and France, and not a few people from small businesses
betrayed the fact that they hadn't realized that they'd need to revert to
POTS from ISDN to be able to have broadband, and were grateful that I'd
mentioned the fact.

-- 
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}                                          bhk@dsl.co.uk
    "We can no longer stand apart from Europe if we would.  Yet we are
    untrained to mix with our neighbours, or even talk to them".
                                              George Macaulay Trevelyan, 1919

Re: Are there any ShowRoom Plus customers still in this group?

#356

Author: Alastair
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 23:27

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"Brian {Hamilton Kelly}" <bhk@dsl.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1054843706snz@dsl.co.uk...
> At one time, there were a number of regular posters to this group that
> had either Demon's ShowRoom Plus product, or an NDU account.  Either had
> the luxury of being able to connect at 128kb/s using a SurfTime (g5)
> telephone number (24/7, if they wished).
>
> Are any of them still here?  Does the service still work as well as ever,
> both for single- and dual-channel connections?  In particular, have you
> noticed any change to the monthly fee (since the website seems to suggest
> that there's nowadays _very_ attractive pricing)?  I wonder if there's
> still a hefty "set-up fee"?
>
> (I did make a more explicit post in <news:demon.ip.www> for the
> [intended] obscurity.  However, it appears to have been too obscure :-)
>
> My reason for wanting to be obscure is that I'm unsure whether Demon
> could handle the connections were every ISDN-using customer to want to
> convert to ShowRoom Plus.  OTOH, I suppose, nowadays many who might have
> wanted that facility will have migrated to ADSL.  Here where I live BT
> have just this week (Tuesday[1]) reached the trigger level for my
> exchange, but I would never give up all the _other_ features of ISDN
> merely to be able to get ADSL.
>
> [1] By a spooky coincidence, the day before an open meeting for the
> townsfolk bringing "broadband" to their attention, including displays by
> companies providing means other than ADSL-over-POTS, such as satellite,
> wireless, and also a presentation by someone from BT.  I managed to ask
> that man why BT don't deliver ADSL-over-ISDN, as is done extensively in
> both Germany and France, and not a few people from small businesses
> betrayed the fact that they hadn't realized that they'd need to revert to
> POTS from ISDN to be able to have broadband, and were grateful that I'd
> mentioned the fact.

We, and many of our clients, had NDUs. We've now all changed to ADSL
(not Demon I'm afraid).

We, and our clients, have never regretted the move for an instant.

If you get the chance to jump to a serious, business level, ADSL suplier,
then go for it.

We were Demon customers for a heck of a long time and got loads of
our clients to use them. Using a different ISP now is just such a preoblem-
free relief. We got so many less support calls for one thing.

I used to love Demon, sadly in recent years their service went down the
pan. Some other ISPs are now as good, or better than, Demon were in
their heyday.

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