Re: Telstra Bigpond Cable

2006-03-24 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 23/03/2006, at 5:05 PM, Hugh Griffiths wrote: Has anyone any recommendations for usage meters for cable modems, and also has anyone any recommendations for speed meters for cable modems. I also remember some time ago someone on the list wrote a really neat little seabreeze widget for

Re: Telstra Bigpond Cable

2006-03-24 Thread Stephen Atherton
Indeed, Launch is a great app (although I grew weary of having to have one machine always running Launch. A broadband router that runs the bigpond client seems less tedious when more than one machine is involved). If you are wanting to work out speed only, there is a nice Applet at

RE: Telstra Bigpond Cable

2006-03-23 Thread Hugh Griffiths
Has anyone any recommendations for usage meters for cable modems, and also has anyone any recommendations for speed meters for cable modems. I also remember some time ago someone on the list wrote a really neat little seabreeze widget for dashboard, I just cant find the info if they still have

Re: Telstra Bigpond Cable

2006-03-22 Thread Rob Davies
Morning All, Same story with the ADSL home WIFI, except this was with technician onsite. Before he would start job I had to have a WinXP machine to install system, even though he had his pretty laptop, thankfully my son had his XP/Linux machine. Anyway after 40 minutes plus of trying to

RE: telstra bigpond cable

2006-03-01 Thread Hugh Griffiths
Hugh Griffiths -Original Message- From: WAMUG Mailing List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hugh Griffiths Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 12:04 PM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: telstra bigpond cable It sound like the best option if I have to keep with bigpond is to go

Re: telstra bigpond cable

2006-02-22 Thread Brett Carboni
On 21/02/2006, at 10:39 PM, Greg Sharp wrote: On 21/2/06 8:06 PM, Hugh Griffiths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1/. How hard is it to self install bigpond cable wireless modems? ( the website says that self install is not supported for macs?) Telstra Wireless is a pain in the butt. Nobody I've

Re: telstra bigpond cable

2006-02-22 Thread Susan Hastings
Iiinet also has a good reputation. Everything has worked seamlessly for me. Their download speeds are the fastest available as far as I know. Prices comparable or better. On 22/02/2006, at 1:41 AM, Brett Carboni wrote: On 21/02/2006, at 10:39 PM, Greg Sharp wrote: On 21/2/06 8:06 PM, Hugh

Re: telstra bigpond cable

2006-02-22 Thread Brett Carboni
They *do* have good download speeds reasonable prices but last time I heard their Mac support was not good. (I used to be with them for years and I found it was not the best, but then, who's is? Methinks we are oft considered pariahs in the PC world, Oh - you have an *Apple* :-) Nice

RE: telstra bigpond cable

2006-02-22 Thread Hugh Griffiths
is flakey at best, any one else heard this? Best Regards Hugh Griffiths -Original Message- From: WAMUG Mailing List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brett Carboni Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 10:01 AM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: telstra bigpond cable They *do* have

Re: telstra bigpond cable

2006-02-22 Thread Robert Howells
On 22 Feb 2006, at 1:41 AM, Brett Carboni wrote: BTW, she *did* get me running after a while with a direct ethernet connection but, hey, everything was working fine until they sent me the new cable modem. And I'm kinda used to wireless now. And she was polite :-) They're not cheap. For the

Re: telstra bigpond cable

2006-02-22 Thread Greg Pennefather
Hugh We're running a VoIP business for residential customers and have come across Bigpond cable a number of times and the trouble customers have plugging our phone adapter in. What we have found is that Bigpond cable only supports a single device - either the Ethernet port or USB, not

RE: telstra bigpond cable

2006-02-22 Thread Hugh Griffiths
- From: WAMUG Mailing List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Pennefather Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 11:52 AM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: telstra bigpond cable Hugh We're running a VoIP business for residential customers and have come across Bigpond cable a number

Re: telstra bigpond cable

2006-02-21 Thread Robert Howells
On 21 Feb 2006, at 5:06 PM, Hugh Griffiths wrote: Hi, I know internet connections and specifically providers are a recurring theme here, but I have a few very specific questions as I am considering connecting to bigpond cable. Current set up is imac G5, imac snow (G3), PS2 and ibm laptop.

Re: telstra bigpond cable

2006-02-21 Thread Greg Sharp
On 21/2/06 8:06 PM, Hugh Griffiths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1/. How hard is it to self install bigpond cable wireless modems? ( the website says that self install is not supported for macs?) 2/. Does anyone know what the modem is that bigpond uses? ( there is no clues on the website and I