[H-GEN] Telstra and Linux

[Stuart Longland]

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Sandra Milne wrote:

> We just finished our contract and are about to finish our first month
> on download cap. Whilst looking for information for a TAFE Assignment
> the other day, I noticed that TPG Internet offers unlimited ADSL
> 256/64 for $69.95. After much discussion in the household, we've
> decided to go with that. Significantly slower than cable, but at least
> we don't have to worry about how much we're downloading.

> And BTW, there is no 'free traffic' with optusnet. Last I heard
> mirror.  aarnet was on optusnet, and they promote it, but still no
> free traffic.  that's one of our main reasons for quitting. another
> is, who the hell wants the speed of cable so that they can download
> only 3gig?  we couldn't even find out if the game servers are free
> traffic (I suspect they're not, and I've not heard anything good about
> them in any case)

> Sandra.

I'd watch TPG, my (now old) school, St. James College decided to get
ADSL through TPG, it was down half the time and *Tel$tra* was to blame
for *every* service outage.  I know Tel$tra is bad, but not _that_ bad.

One internet cafe (also my second home - http://www.thesanctuary.com.au)
also has had similar problems with ITXPress.  We're looking at the
situation because soon they'll be hosting their website on their ADSL
connection (once I'm done building their server).

Most ISPs charge for even local traffic.  About the only site free for
us is anything in the longlandclan.hopto.org domain, in particular the
website which sits on our local ethernet.

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