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Did your ISDN rate go up?
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Bruce
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 6:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Frank F wrote:
Hmmm Works for me.


You live a charmed life, sir, and/or you're living on a major Qwest nexus point up there in Park City!

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 7:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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ballenberg
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 10:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hey Dan--

Look at you there, blending these two divergent mini-threads back into one smooth line of gorgeous connectivity.

So, yes

A) wireless card sounds good, and

also A) The LD thing can really be tricky. Tried Verizon LD for a while. Worked fine, except in connecting to some states, it totally did not. For me (knock on wood) MCI is good.

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Frank F
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 11:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Dan-O writes: "In the Portland region, Qwest/Century Link does provide LD; however, it is data only and lacks the third data channel that frames the codecs for BRI (voice) use."


I had to make a special request for the 2B+D set-up and it did take while for the local boys and girls to figure out I knew what I was talking about. Once connected to the ISDN backbone of the telcom network everything is A-OK -----now!

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JTVG
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 1:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
ballenberg wrote:
Wait Joe--I'm confused--Maybe I'm misreading your initial post. I thought you were saying that you've always found it necessary to have ports mapped when you're in a hotel and using SC. Is that right? But then, you spoke of only port mapping when you were home or had access to the router--ie, not in a hotel where the router is inaccessible. So I'm like, Huh?


Sorry I wasn't clear. My experience at hotels, relatives houses and anywhere where I wasn't able to log in and map ports has been that when I would try to pull up Source Connect, it would say "port not mapped". When I would try to use it, the VU meter input display was choppy and not showing real time audio. A test connection either didn't work or resulted in audio that was extremely choppy. At hotels, I never bothered trying to find the right person to give me access to the router.

At home and a couple other places, I had the same experience before I mapped the ports, which fixed the issues.

Also, in relation to the air card Dan mentioned, I went ahead and got the Verizon offering a couple years ago on a pay-as-you-need it type of plan. It does fix the port issue since there doesn't appear to be a firewall built into it. Speeds weren't the greatest though which depends on cell coverage, of course. The only time I tried to use it, I did a test call first with Out Of Hear and the medium setting gave us good results. High was just a little too bandwidth-greedy to be totally smooth. When I tried to use it for the session, the studio at the other end said the audio was choppy. I keep it on hand as a last resort. If an ISDN studio is nearby, I much prefer to go that route. It just annoys me when a perfectly good hotel Wifi is available and I can't use Source Connect on it because of the port issue.

My experiences with Source Connect on a good internet connection at my studio have been great.
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ballenberg
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 2:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thanks Joe--- -There's nothing that comes close to ISDN for reliability and simplicity--At least not yet.
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agettig
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 5:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I was just about to buy a used codec from Dave at Digifon but figured I better get the monthly pricing first. 10 years ago, it was only $50/mo. I tracked down the appropriate folks at Ma Bell and was told it would be just shy of $200/mo. Lordy! I ended up buying Source Connect figuring I could bridge to ISDN.
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