[H-GEN] adsl provider and modems

[David Jericho]

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On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 08:51:15PM +1000, Michael Anthon wrote:
> I'd be interested to know how you find Internode.  I'm also considering
> switching to ADSL when I move in a few weeks. 

I've had Internode here at home for 3 months now, and I've not had one
problem with them so far. When they activiated the service, they rang
me up, and gave me the username and password, and asked when I want it
turned on. 

It took 19 minutes from that phone call for my ADSL to come up. 

> I've been talking to people in #linuxaus and at least one person has 
> bagged them saying that their performance is crap and that I should 
> use Telstra.

And as Rob Kearey said in a very different way, ignore the crap that
(some of) the #linuxaus boys sprout. I used to hang around in there,
but the sheer volume of rubbish that flows by, with both the trash talk,
and the misinformation makes the #teenchat channel more useful for technical
queries.

> does break the AUP as far as I can tell.  It seems that Internode does not
> have a problem with this (again, as far as I can tell).

No, they don't, and Simon Hackett(sp?) Has-A-Clue(tm).

[1] I somehow have a problem paying for traffic twice.

-- 
David Jericho
Senior Systems Administrator, Bytecomm Pty Ltd

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