This one time, at band camp, Dean Hamstead wrote: > Ah yes, this i realise. I have unwired through internode which is just > vanilla pppoe. Unwired has prepaid which is appealing for the circumstance > for which i am investigating.
Virgin Broadband has a 30-day cooling off period, which might be worth investigating if you're just trying to plug a gap waiting for fixed-line broadband. > How does unwired know who you are if it is using dhcp? do they > want your MAC address? You register the MAC address of the Unwired "modem" with Unwired. That's the access control. The DHCP server is inside the "modem". -- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because geeks travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ "... Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the 'most reliable Windows ever.' To me, this is like saying that asparagus is 'the most articulate vegetable ever.'" - Dave Barry -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html