From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 14 4: 1:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BD8037B4EC for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 04:01:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA99834; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 13:01:38 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Stephen McKay Cc: Haikal Saadh , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Broadband downunder References: <20010214020152.5079.qmail@web1604.mail.yahoo.com> <200102141136.f1EBatG18850@dungeon.home> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 14 Feb 2001 13:01:38 +0100 In-Reply-To: Stephen McKay's message of "Wed, 14 Feb 2001 21:36:55 +1000" Message-ID: Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Stephen McKay writes: > 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. Heh. Norwegian cable providers also officially insist on Windows, but IRL they're happy as clams to have the customer install the network adapter and drivers himself, as long as he doesn't come whining to them if it doesn't work. As for ADSL, the provider from which I've ordered my line (not installed yet) says you can use anything you want as long as it talks TCP/IP over Ethernet. They're happy to draw the line between "mine" and "yours" at the router. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message