Perhaps the uni needs to look at getting involved with the community wireless thing that I see is happening here in Christchurch to provide a bit of competition and give Telecom some reason to think a bit harder?!
Telstra seem to be able to provide free mirror sites for all the major distro stuff to all it's broadband customers in Australia. Most ISPs in Australia seem to be able to match that. Seems the rugby isn't the only thing that we get beaten on! Cheers DiG On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 13:56:51 +1300, Mike Beattie wrote > On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 12:59:46PM +1200, Don Gould - BVC wrote: > > As for what Telecom are charging for national traffic, I'd be interested to > > hear more about this. As an ADSL customer I get free national traffic. It > > strikes me that there is something wrong in the system if a university can't > > host distros for Linux for everyone in the country! > > A single ADSL user, surprisingly, would use a *significantly* > smaller amount of data a month, compared to a University. > > Not much more needs to be explained. > > Mike. > -- > Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZL4TXK, IRLP > Node 6184 > > Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. -- Don Gould www.bvc.com.au
