On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Jeff Allison wrote: > Hi Bob I'm in Blue Haven south of you what seems to be the go on the > Central Coast, is to put fiber in from the nearest exchange to new areas > so if your unlucky enough to be on one of those you are limited to 28800, > 31200 if the wind is in the right direction. (and no possibility of ADSL). > but 2-3 minutes does seem v. excessive. By the way I was with Terrigal net > (Nobbys by another name) they seemed fairly clued up but as I transferred > to their unlimited plan they changed me over to HotKey (a Primus pop) and > the problems began.
I had huge problems with Kooee internet in Newcastle who incidently were iprimus resellers as well. The pop was swamped and at times I couldn't even ping the proxy server. Playing with lower MTU's helped a lot but still wasn't satisfactory. The dialup was always going to be temporary until I got ADSL but it was so bad I got another 'temporary' telstra dialup. Now I finally got the ADSL and have reduced my plan to the 1Gb/month limit. I used about 350Mb last month at home, mainly because I hardly use the service but when I do I haven't got time to stuff around waiting. -- ---<GRiP>--- Web: www.arcadia.au.com/gripz Answering Machine/fax: 02 4950 1194 (wait 5 mins if no answer) Mobile: 0408 686 201 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
