Grant, Pacific is a mixed bag. I'll speak in terms of facts to be on a safe side.
They transparently proxy all web traffic. You may the Telstra router they have in Sydney has been disconnected about 8 times for more than 2 hours since we signed up 3 months ago. Every time it happens you get weird icmp messages saying host 10.0.1.51 is unreachable every time you try and open a tcp connection to the internet. That's the bad. The good is they support user based roaring penguin and the support people will talk to you. They deserve a recommendation for their support of Linux and even have agents in Sydney that could set it up for you. As far as fixing problems with their network in the long term that's debatable. Today all their web traffic was noticeably slower, and their was a message on phone support saying "if you are calling up about slow international web browsing we are experiencing problems..." Then again last week there was Telstra cable and ADSL down for 2 days (on and off). I've heard Telstra is more reliable overall, but that is my subjective opinion from trying both. To get roughly the same costs with Telstra make sure you proxy everything! I hope I helped. Take this advice as - is with a pinch of salt, just as another possibly misguided user. (I don't want to be sued) Pity if you can't get optus@home. They let you mirror mirror.aarnet.edu.au with no penalties / excess charges! :_) Cheers, Luke -----Original Message----- From: Grant Parnell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 18 December 2001 7:33 PM To: Keith J.Hasely Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] DSL Providers Who Support Linux. On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Keith J.Hasely wrote: > Hey, > > I am looking for a DSL provider who supports Linux in the Sydney area? > Does anyone have any recommendations? I am located in the US (Los > Angeles California to be exact) and the set up I have hear is RedHat, > using Roaring Penguin to connect to my DSL provider and I use IP tables > to lock everything down. I may need to send a box over there to get an > office on line. I would also like some phone numbers of any one who > works freelance or has a business that supports Linux, and is > knowledgeable in networking and securing Linux products. For DSL providers you've got Telstra, Optus and Pacific seems to be a popular one among our customers for business use but there's plenty more depending on exactly where your going to be locating your business. I'm not online at the moment but I'll have a stab at the URL's http://telstra.com http://www.optus.net.au http://www.pacific.net.au pacific.com.au? pacificinternet.com.au? http://www.spectrum.com.au We frequently setup & support linux boxes on Cable/ADSL/modem/ISDN etc. If you haven't found anyone yet try http://www.linuxhelp.com.au. -- ---<GRiP>--- Web: www.arcadia.au.com/gripz Phone/fax: 02 4950 1194 Mobile: 0408 686 201 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
