On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 15:49:03 +1100 "David Kempe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Gday Chris, > > Recent SLUG flamewars aside, plain text email is appreciated :) > > However I don't think you can go past Optus for cable. My only gripe with > them would be a bit dodgy HTTP proxy setup, however for price and speed its > damn nice. > I don't think there are any other cable companies for residential use. ADSL > maybe, but cable not for residential. If you are lucky enough to have the option, avoid Tel$tra. I've been with bigpong cable for over year and I am far from impressed with it. Problems include: 1) Moronic rules that state you can't run servers (Mail web etc) unless you are on the Business Plan. 2) If you are a business you must join the business plan. 3) A business plan that has 500Meg free per month and then charges 19 cents per megabyte. This compares to the cheaper Freedom plan with 3Gig free. 4) The worst Usenet news server I have ever used. Connections to it seem to freeze at short random intervals for no appraent reason. 5) A call centre which is clueless beyond belief. One call center person I spoke to didn't know the difference between an IMAP server and and iMac. 6) A tendancy to do important maintenance work on the network starting at 6am on a weekday instead of 2am in a Sunday morning like most ISPs. Said maintenance always fails to get the system back and operational in the hour or so they esitmate and is usually not running again before midday. 7) The crappy cable modem. Mine died about 2 weeks after my contract finished. My only option is to go on another plan and buy another fscking modem. 8) Crappy DNS which fails for 15 minutes at a time for no good reason. 9) Tel$tra's general poor attitude towards its mugs^H^H^H^Hcustomers. End of rant. Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "Don't be fooled by NT/Exchange propaganda. M$ Exchange is just plain broken and NT cannot handle the sustained load of a high-volume remote mail server" -- Eric S. Raymond in the Fetchmail FAQ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
