On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 10:48 +0000, hav wrote: > 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.
My experience: I've suggested Unwired to three people because of their circumstances [1], and each of them have been happy with it. None of them are geeks. They probably don't notice the problems, and obviously don't care. They are all still my friends! Unwired advertise (still?) a return policy if it doesn't work. I have no reason to think they don't stand by the guarantee. Installation is a breeze - it's just ethernet/DHCP and then log on to their web site to start paying. That easy. I'm not an advocate. It works for some people. It worked for my daughter/friend/workcolleague. It may not work for you. If you can get your money back, you only have the time and effort to lose. > 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 $40 for the ISA > transceiver card/it only 54mbps but I am not a gamer. I am the only > person this century to undertake a Master of IT w/o having an Internet > connection. You guys are all from Sydney - maybe Nathan Buckley makes > it better here? Truth be told I'm dual boot, and have to submit most > coursework in .doc format, and OpenOffice just isn't good enough I'm intrigued by this.. I've been dealing with several accountants and lawyers lately who are utterly clueless and insist there is no choice but Word/Excel. They had no idea I was using OpenOffice - it was transparent to them, including Excel style spreadsheets. What problems have you had? > (then > again neither is WordPerfect or WordPad.exe even) HOWEVER : Byron, I > really appreciate your list, but I'd still go ahead...I NEED to be > online, damn, but about linux users suffereing: can you elaborate some > more, or can anyone? I am aware that several (BIGPOND) ISP's (TEL$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 > Help is here. If you are talking about connecting linux to Unwired, just don't tell them you are using Linux and you will have no problems. If you are talking about running services on your Unwired connection that may be more problematic, I'm not sure. [1] circumstances that suited unwired: one: absolutely crappy phone lines in a rental flat two: wanted to use the same ISP account at work/home/boy friend's place three: frequently moving house -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
