From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Feb 22 17:54:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA23341 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 17:54:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from atlas.iexpress.net.au (root@atlas.iexpress.net.au [203.38.34.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA23334 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 17:54:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mikey@iexpress.net.au) Received: from support1 (support1.iexpress.net.au [203.38.34.23]) by atlas.iexpress.net.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA21238; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 09:56:23 +0800 Message-ID: <008601bd3ffe$2e7c8f00$172226cb@support1.iexpress.net.au> From: "Michael Slater" To: "Greg Lehey" , "Jim Mock" , Subject: Re: Australian backbone providers Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 09:55:56 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have found Telstra's Network to be quite good They do however require a lead time of 40 (or more) working days to do almost anything...which i find to be almost unbearable, when im in a hurry to get something done. Michael -----Original Message----- From: Greg Lehey To: Jim Mock ; freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Saturday, February 21, 1998 9:15 AM Subject: Re: Australian backbone providers >On Fri, 20 February 1998 at 10:15:25 -0800, Jim Mock wrote: >> Anyone know any good backbone providers in Australia? Particularly the >> Wagga Wagga area.. I know Telstra's there and Optus as well, but I was >> curious about any others. We're considering going international and I need >> to get info on pricing etc, and would like to explore as many options as >> possible. > >You should be aware that Telstra has several operations. The backbone >operation works quite well, except that they insist on assigning one >of their IP addresses to your gateway, and they assign a silly name to >go with it. The service has been pretty good in the 7 odd months I've >been connected. Check out http://www.telstra.net/. Don't confuse >this with their toy network at http://www.bigpond.com, which is very >bad. > >Greg > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message