-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Hansen Loke wrote:

> Too bad they won't have cables to my place for another year or so. I
> take it that they installed a splitter for you? What are thier rates
> and do they have a data limit?

No splitter involved, access over cable is independent of any phone
services. 

Data packages for Paradise vary depending on speed. 512k/128k has 1GB
international, 256k/128k has 5GB int, 128k/128k 10GB int. National is
metered at 1/10th of international, and certain stuff (eg,
debian.paradise.net.nz, where Paradise's local debian mirror is) are free.

Have had cable for a couple of years in welly, it's pretty good. The great
thing is no stupid PPPoE hackery needed, the cable network acts more like
a big ethernet bridge. However, I gather in other parts of the country
they are using different methods (moving away from the Com21 proprietry
stuff in welly), so check with someone down your way about how it runs. :)

(ObDisc: Don't work for them, don't have a stake in them.)

- -- 
"I know of no technological device at this time that would [prevent
priracy] and if it did exist, it would only be a matter of days before the
[..] manufacturers would have an override piece of equipment on their
machine and you would start from ground zero again."
   -- Jack Valenti, President of the MPAA (1982)
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6

iD8DBQE9WtKzT21+qRy4P+QRApcGAJ9x4/fDUlJiFo1A7ZF03+z9wxzOJACgkVli
Qn4Zom134nfIW7gLDmFo2d4=
=cpXj
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----


Reply via email to