On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 01:43:17PM +1000, Jessica Mayo wrote: > On Mon, 6 May 2002, Matthew Hannigan wrote: > > I've heard that Telstra fall down in the quality > > and speed of their authentication and dns servers, > > so if you get the right reseller it could be a lot > > better. On this score I've heard Pacific Internet > > are good. I've used Zip for a long time (but not for dsl) > > which is now owned by Pacific, and they're still pretty good. > > Just for the record: Pacific Internet ar not a Telstra reseller. They go > through Optus. :)
Not quite right. They get their domestic internet traffic from Optus. However their ADSL connections are bough wholesale from Telstra. Which means they are better than Telstra Retail ADSL because you aren't sitting on Telstra's crappy home network. But no better when it comes to ADSL ouatge problems that affect all Tesltra Flexstream customers. My recomendation is You just want ADSL but don't care about reliability or what the network is like go with Telstra Retail Something that sits on a more reliable IP network PI ADSL Telstra Direct Something that you would like to stay up and not go down then find someone reselling Request DSL eg Techex, Talent Be careful that if you get something Request based that you are actually on a request based exchange and not using a Telstra based request service. -- John http://www.inodes.org/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
