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Re: Homehighway

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From: Alan W. Frame
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 00:00
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Will van Zwanenberg <REMOVE_THIS_will@willz.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> andrew@proof.demon.co.uk (Andrew Moller) wrote:
> > {$PW$}@pwomar.demon.co.uk (Paul Womar) wrote:
[]
> > > It's not platform specific, it's an ISDN interface.  Get a Mac ISDN card
> > > or TA.
> > 
> > Homehighway looks very interesting BUT...
> > 
> > BT's web pages mention that ISDN cards for PCs are in the �50 - �100 price
> > range. (Indeed BT seem to be about to start marketing such a card
> > themselves)
> 
> I forget who the third party manufacturers are but BT have gone into
> partnership with these guys. 
[]

So surely the problem is that nobody other than 4-Sight or Hermstead has
written an ISDN PCI driver for Macs???

> > Does anyone know where I can get an ISDN card for a Mac, suitable for use
> > with Homehighway, at a sensible price?
> 
> AFAIK, no such thing exists. I too have beewn trawlling around trying to
> find a reasonably priced card but currently such a thing doesn't exist.

What about the TCP/IP Ethernet/ISDN routers that are advertised around
the 200-300 quid mark?

A Mac has no trouble talking IP to a PC over Ethernet, so a net router
*should* work...

rgds, Alan
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From: alan.frame@acm.org (Alan W. Frame)
Subject: Re: Homehighway
Date: 1998/09/21
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