From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 14 3:35:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ns5.pacific.net.au (ns5.pacific.net.au [203.143.252.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5EB837B401 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 03:35:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from dungeon.home (ppp84.dyn248.pacific.net.au [203.143.248.84]) by ns5.pacific.net.au (8.9.0/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA15335; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 22:35:30 +1100 (EST) Received: from dungeon.home (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dungeon.home (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1EBatG18850; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 21:36:55 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from mckay) Message-Id: <200102141136.f1EBatG18850@dungeon.home> To: Haikal Saadh Cc: chat@freebsd.org, mckay@thehub.com.au Subject: Re: Broadband downunder References: <20010214020152.5079.qmail@web1604.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010214020152.5079.qmail@web1604.mail.yahoo.com> from Haikal Saadh at "Wed, 14 Feb 2001 02:01:52 +0000" Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 21:36:55 +1000 From: Stephen McKay Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wednesday, 14th February 2001, Haikal Saadh wrote: >Anyone got recommendations for a high bandwidth >internet provider in Brisbane? I also want the answer to this one. >I'm finally moving into >a house with enough people to be able to afford >cable/ADSL. Anyone already using these services? A friend of mine has been without an operational telephone for about 10 days now because he ordered Telstra ADSL and Telstra bollocksed the job. >And most importantly, who gives FreeBSD friendly hardware/service? Ha! Ha! (Wipes tears from eyes.) Nobody who sells cable or ADSL in Australia officially supports non-M$ operating systems. As far as I know they even shaft the Mac users. The usual deal is to pretend to be an avid Windoze user while the technician is there, then plug the network into your unix cluster when they've left. The exact details on how to connect from FreeBSD or Linux vary, and I don't currently know any details. Stephen. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message