I'm with Brian on this and wouldn't touch Tel$tra with 100m pole.
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Chris
On 18/11/2005, at 11:37 AM, Brian Forte wrote:
Peter,
I have just received the Telstra Bigpond ADSL SelfInstall package,
but there
is no Mac useful info on the CD that I can see. The SelfInstall
function
seems buried inside a Windows .EXE
Does anyone know if there is a Mac version of the CD.
I don't know for certain if there is a Mac version of the CD but,
even if there is, I wouldn't use Telstra as my ISP if you paid me.
Telstra is a phone company. Phone companies make lousy ISPs. Phone
companies see networks as something they are in control of. All the
intelligence is at the centre and you, at the edge, should only be
allowed to do what they want you to do.
The Internet is, by design, the opposite of that. It's dumb in the
middle. All it does in the middle is move packets around. All the
clever stuff is at the edges. Google, eBay, Slashdot, blogs, VoIP,
iTMS, IRC, message boards, all the clever, interesting, worth-
paying-an-ISP's-connection-fees-for stuff is at the edges.
If you can get broadband service from an ISP that isn't also a
phone company (unless their only phone services are VoIP services,
in which case their still an internet-centric company, just
recognising that IP will be the basis of data transmission of every
sort given time and bandwidth) I'm confident you'll be a happier
camper.
I've switched half-a-dozen clients from Telstra to either Internode
or Adam Internet (the two ISPs here in Adelaide I can recommend) in
the past year and none of them has regretted it. The service is
better. The people you speak to when you have a problem or question
are both better informed and better at explaining things to non-
technical people.
And, because they are better informed, a good ISP supports Macs
better simply because they don't care what sort of device you use.
The attitude you want from your ISP should be something like as
follows (from the Internode FAQ -- <http://adsl.internode.on.net/
faq/getting-connected.htm#faq14>):
So you undoubtedly support Windows users. What about
Macintosh users? Or Linux? Or FreeBSD? or other oper
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