Telstra have put a couple of pretty neat documents up on their website
at http://www.telstra.com.au/adsl/equipmnt.htm
Grab them while you can - they go into extensive detail on the available
bandwidths, protocol stacks, test cases, CPE wiring and filtering
configurations, etc. Apparently they will offer all 4 options:
PPPoE/AAL5, PPP/AAL5, 1483B and 1483R. Surprising.
I'd imagine that IP/PPP/PPPoE/AAL5/ATM will be the standard offering and
that should be quite suitable.
I spoke with a rep regarding billing: it won't be finalised until next
month but it will probably be similar to cable: ~$55/mo for <250 megs,
~$75/mo for unlimited. Don't quote me...
No sign of an acceptable use policy yet - can someome please summarise
Telstra's policy with cable access?
I did read that they'll be offering only a single PPP session per
subscriber (which makes PPPoE kinda pointless...) They do have
equipment which could detect (and stomp on) masquerading, but I wouldn't
expect them to bother with this - savvy users will recompile their
kernel with a different masquerading port range anyway :)
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