On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, john gibbons wrote:
> I can give you some feedback. I was with Optus cable broadband for 2
> years and just recently discontinued to transfer to Unwired. Glad I did.
> An excellent service and cheaper.
>
> Just for fun I have run Fedora 3 and other distros on Optus but also
> experienced a lot of headaches at times getting some of them configured.
> I never succeeded with some. Fedora 3, Red Hat 9 and Mandrake 10 gave no
> trouble with Mandrake and Red Hat actually connecting themselves up with
> virtually no help from me. I am still a beginner with Linux and am not a
> text man - quite confined to GUI clicking. So you can believe me when I
> say something is easy to set up.
>
> BUT - and here is my gripe with Optus Broadband. It is advertised at one
> basic fee for 1 gig but they do not mention the compulsory rent for the
> telephone line they put in and, in my case, a spare telephone I did not
> want. So it actually cost $20 per over the quoted fee. But maybe you
> will not get caught as I did.
Are you talking about Cable or ADSL? The subject is about cable, the stuff
you get the TV through. I am aware that they can actually provide
telephone over the cable though.
I've got a customer that's got 2 optus cable links at different sites,
neither of them are a problem. The trick is if you switch ethernet cards
or plug it into a different machine pull the plug on the cable modem to
reset it. It will only talk to the first MAC address it sees. I spent half
an hour figuring that out. (Same for i-burst ethernet).
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