[H-GEN] isp connection advice for temporary visitor

[Peter Good]

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Real life? We're on the Freedom Deluxe, 512/128 plan.
on a usual apt-get upgrade, I average 53k from us.debian, mirror.aarnet also
gives a constant 53k, uploads to anywhere except modems has always stuck on
12k.

Only thing is we don't get a static ip, it is dynamic, but that doesn't
bother me much, I just got myself a dynamic dns redirector for a few
personal test webpages. Also, in the last 4 months since it was installed,
Telstra hasn't complained one bit about ports 80, 22, and 113 being open. I
think maybe they're a bit more relaxed about servers than @home is, because
we have a mate down in melbourne on o at h, and they positively scream if he
opens up anything.

All in all, we're quite happy with it. We got the extra users on ours, and
simply plugged the dsl modem into my switch, and then all our machines (3
of) are plugged into them seperately. They all get their own ip, which is
handy (we do spend a little bit of time on irc sessions, therefore we don't
get banned from the servers for supposed clones.).

I'd like to see a static ip on it, but ah well, such is life, If telstra
offer it, I'll take it, but for now we're happy with dynamic.

Summary? Well worth it in our eyes, we haven't had one problem with them and
the only downtime has been a scheduled one for upgrades.

Peter.

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Peter,

> We have adsl (Telstra) up here in lovely Caboolture, and it's stable as
> anything,
>
We're still waiting for it to launch up in Nambour though multiplexer
(?) is in place, Alcatel is subcontractor doing the setup, ETA was to be
this month but doubtful (NDC techs laughed when I told them).

I'm 3.5k from the exchange so my fingers are crossed. I'll run it on
dohs98 and FreeBSD if and when.

Do you have static IP? Which plan are you using? How's the realworld
performance?

Ron Shafran
SC Designs

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