Now, Isdn For Dummies
New easy-to-use high-speed adapters even have spare phone and fax jacks
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About 18 months ago, I plunged into the world of digital telephones when I set up a link over ISDN (integrated services digital network) circuits between my home and my office. It took hours of pondering obscure manuals and many tech-support phone calls before I got the Motorola terminal adapters--the ISDN equivalent of modems--working right.
How times have changed. A few weeks ago, I plugged a card called the Supra NetCommander ISDN from Diamond Multimedia (800 727-8772 or www.supra.com) into a slot in my Windows 95 PC. I followed the instructions on the screen when I turned the machine on, loaded some software off floppies, and within a few minutes was cruising the Internet at 128 kilobits per second.