They not only have to string the wire to your house, it has to be wired right up to the jack in the house that you will connect your ISDN modem to. Remember though that normal modems are limited to a 33.6k upload speed but with a Shotgun setup that too can be doubled. So now that the background information has been covered, now to the meat of the subject. Like most things in life, it is a trade-off. And like most things dealing with computers, it's going to be a question of performance vs. cost.
Lets look at the performance issue first.
This performance does not come cheap, however. So after it's all said and done, ISDN is fast, but expensive. So now to Shotgun. You simply have 2 phones connections set up at your house and plug both lines into the back of this baby, load the software and you are ready to rock. We think this upgrading our modem pool is now just getting plain silly.