[plug] So-called Internet access

[Michael Squires]

Hear hear!

Omninets proxy is way OTT!

Ive made several requests/querys with them and all of the replys
ranged from laughable to completely usless.
Some that spring to mind.....

I Emailed support saying that Red Alert 2 wouldnt work behind
their proxy and could they open up the required ports. The next day
I was told to Email Westwood and ask them for a patch.


Facing the prospect of DL the 77Meg OpenGL file (since the small setup
file didnt support proxys), I asked Omninet if they had a copy, or,
could they open up www.glsetup.com for me. Their reply ??

"Have they got the file on ftp ?
Email them to provide access via ftp."


Two more days and Im outta this hole!

Regards
Michael



From: Steve Vertigan <vertigan at bigfoot.com>
Reply-To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] So-called Internet access
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 16:27:35 +0800

Nick Bannon wrote:

 > This is one of my pet peeves - companies engaging in false advertising
 > on this point.
 >
 > Omninet quite clearly advertises that they provide "Internet Access
 > Accounts". In other words, they should allocate you with one or more IP
 > addresses and make a best-effort attempt to carry internet protocol
 > packets to and from those addresses.

My parents in Albany were with Omninet for a while and the are quite 
possibly
the worst ISP I have ever dealt with.  Not only did they block port 80, 
rather
than set up a transparent filter they weren't even able to offer a reliable
proxy, it frequently was down!  I was able to use a friends squid proxy on 
3128
for urgent things but it was slow as they were going through a modem.  
Setting
up squid to work with their proxy is a pain too.  Their web hosting is too
restrictive to be useful and although I should point out I'm not a qualified
mental health professional it's my opinion that the owner/administrator is a
paranoid nutball, my brother had an enormous amount of trouble finding out
things like the location of the perl interpretor and the sendmail binary on
their webhost.

My advice to the original poster is look at iiNet, they now have a POP down
Albany way and much as I hate to say anything good about them they're 
streaks
ahead of the rest of the competition down there.

Regards,
Steve


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