On Mon, 15 May 2000, George Vieira wrote:
> I'm not sure that Linux will work as a friend of mine has it for his Win95
> machine and you MUST apply a machine name to your PC.. eg.. OP012884L and
> that's your machine name.. anything else it won't work..
> Silly I think...
It works from Linux, lots of people are using it. DaZZa even infered in
his mail that it works. The host name is no problem.
> Optus cable is apparently real damn quick too.. I've seen soemthing like 10
> downloads at 12-20KB/s and quaking at the same time....
Thats slow, only 200kb/s, I have got over 600kb/s.
Rodos
> thanks,
> George Vieira
> Network Administrator
> Citadel Computer Systems P/L
> http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: DaZZa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, 15 May 2000 11:43 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [SLUG] Optus@home - the verdict?
>
>
> OK.
>
> All you guys who have got Optus2home cable.
>
> What's the verdict? Is it easy to make work with Linux? Is it worth the
> hassle of having to provide a Winblows machine for them to install to, and
> then moving to Linux? Do the problems with the Optus supplied ethernet
> card still exist, and is there a workaround?
>
> I'm seriously looking at this - but comparing the features between the big
> puddle and Optus doesn't leave a lot of difference now. - and from
> reports, big puddle is a lot less hassle for Linux users.
>
> DaZZa
>
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