Whoa. What do I do now? The good Reverend and a couple others are keen on it, but the reason that I am in this mess is this: I am returned to study, and am at my parents' property. We have good coverage according to the unwired site. If, like Rev. Rumble Reckons, they have a good return policy, then I will give it a go. I am not talking about the portable pcmcia card ($250) but the bizzare looking dt modem ($180). I was thinking I'd pay about $16-%30 according to the sales rep, who asked me to ask for her by name, but I forgot her name but she didn't know what linux is anyway. My father is a technophobe so even tho I could split his optus a/c (I already got him the router) I have no exp doing this. I'd be out of pocket only $40 for the ISA transceiver card/it only 54mbps but I am not a gamer. I am the only person this century to undertake a Master of IT w/o having an Internet connection. You guys are all from Sydney - maybe Nathan Buckley makes it better here? Truth be told I'm dual boot, and have to submit most coursework in .doc format, and OpenOffice just isn't good enough (then again neither is WordPerfect or WordPad.exe even) HOWEVER : Byron, I really appreciate your list, but I'd still go ahead...I NEED to be online, damn, but about linux users suffereing: can you elaborate some more, or can anyone? I am aware that several (BIGPOND) ISP's (TEL$TRA) do not allow (DODO) you to use most protocols finger, rcp, whatever port limewire uses and so on. I guess, I could get the guy to come and demostrate and make him setup on my linux partition first - any ideas anyone? I really appreciate all of your help. Henz
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