Tkamia,
Thanks for the note! We are talking about ISDN. While by no stretch an expert on ISDN, before DSL swept the world, I did about 2 dozen ISDN installs for customers. But that was years ago and even though I can configure a router and do the install, doesn’t mean I know anything about how to get the circuit to the customer’s site.
I didn’t think there were issues with line type for ISDN. After all, the spec was developed to provide digital signals over copper All I can relay is what Qwest, the phone company, said. I did a little research and it appears that the issue may be one of the circuit rather than the line itself
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ito_doc/isdn.htm
There are also many RFCs related to ISDN. I read part of one for grins
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3398.html
So all I can guess at is that they either won’t or can’t extend the current circuit by using existing lines. Whatever. It isn’t worth a surcharge of $67 per month for ever on top of about $90 + taxes to get this near cripple 128K bandwidth. Maybe I could get a neighbor to ask for ISDN, then pay a month and loose the service. I mean, after all, once the circuit/line is there, they are not gonna rip it out just because a customer cancels.
Also, the problem with using satellite is that I wanted to set a web site. Well, really, just a couple of elk cams, and remote access or vpn, but with a mere 50K uplink the elk cams are doable but the vpn would be s-l-o-w, plus, as you pointed out, Hughes doesn’t support it anyway. I also don’t know how a satellite dish would respond in a snow/ice storm, or with a weeks worth of snow and ice build up on it. I have my doubts....