* On Thu Feb 14, 2002 at 10:06:19PM +1100, Bob Hubbard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, finally made it from Canada, living now in Bonnells Bay. >
Welcome to Oz! > Signed up for 3 months with TPG as a provider. Haven't yet configured ppp > for my SuSE. > > My question is about a dial up system here in Oz. I am extremely > disappointed with the provider I have, never have seen anything as slow but > then I'm not familiar with this kind of connection in NSW, are they all > fairly slow. Takes about 3 mins to jump from page to page once I'm logged > into a website. I don't mean to complain about TPG, just would like to know > if in fact it is normal speed for a dial up modem. > I'm using iHug, they seem pretty good so far (swapped over about a weekago). They have a 24.95 prepay plan (4 months up front) that allows you unlimited download, unlimited time online with a POSSIBLE 3 hour session limit. The limit is only imposed if their systems reach 90% capacity and immediate reconnect is available. (I've been connected for a couple of days at a time) HTH Greeno -- Tony Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG Key : 1024D/B5657C8B Key fingerprint = 9ED8 59CC C161 B857 462E 51E6 7DFB 465B B565 7C8B There was a man who entered a local paper's pun contest. He sent in ten different puns, in the hope that at least one of the puns would win. Unfortunately, no pun in ten did. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
