On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Howard Lowndes wrote: > > I'd say 'welcome to yo-yo city' about them in general. I've heard abysmal > > things about Telstra's service; a mod called Flow who say they have their > > own network is at least as bad; I haven't heard anything too bad about AAPT > > and Optus but they're probably not perfect either. > > I think you'll find that Flow do use Telstra. I had an issue with them a
I should have disclaimed that statement - I have no personal knowledge of Flow's network arrangements, I was only going from their rather prominent statement on their website: FLOW has designed, built and now operates a sophisticated network with the widest geographical reach of any independent communications company in Australia. As we own the majority of our network, our customers have come to enjoy affordable and reliable data transport services that are second to none. (from http://www.flow.com.au/products_services.html) >From the second sentence, I'd say they have some of their own and use Telstra's elsewhere (including, I guess, the parts you are operating in). > > > Also what ISP's are Linux friendly and knowledgeable? I would like to be > > > able to set up Squid to use the ISP's cache farm (Apparently Telstras is > > > only available to 'Direct' customers). > > I don't think you will find that is true. I have several BPB ADSL sites > that still use the BPD proxy caches without any probs. It seems odd that any ISP wouldn't want users using their proxies. I know a couple of dial-up ISPs I've used over the years shoving proxies down their user's throats... -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- #include <disclaimer.h> Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
