questionable practices (was Re: [H-GEN] Which ADSL provider ?)

[Marco Grigull]

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On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 23:15:15 +1000
Stuart Longland <stuartl at longlandclan.hopto.org> wrote:


> 	While yes, Telstra does sometimes indulge in somewhat questionable
> practices to try and stifle competition, I get suspicious of the ISP
> when it happens this frequently - especially when our own ADSL link is
> still running.

Im running OpenBSD on my gateway.  I have a hunch that optus come across it
in a scan every couple of months, and do something to the cable modem, that 
makes it fail until i power it on with a windows box attached, and restart it
again with the gw.  

Or it may be to do with the fact that I have port ssh/https open .....  
(although I did tell them before signing that I needed ssh access, their
engineer said it shouldn't  be a problem).

Cheers
Marco

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