[plug] Wanted: some Telstra ADSL in Perth & Firewall advice

[Mark Nold]

Thanks people, much appreciated.




Mark Nold
markn at enspace.com
Senior Consultant

Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.




On Sunday, 29 April 2001 1:51, Jason Nicholls [SMTP:jason at mindsocket.com.au] 
wrote:
> G'day,
>
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 12:35:59PM +0800, Mark Nold wrote:
> > 1. Is Telstra ADSL worthwhile? Currently i'm spending approx $70/month for 
a
> >
> > reliable dial-up so as long as the ADSL is reliable i'm not much worse off.
> > But i like the possibility of also being able to play games like
> > Infiltration/Unreal Tournament/ Age of Empires etc, is this realistic with
> > ADSL in Perth?
>
> I've only had ADSL for a couple weeks, but it's certainly worth it for me! I
> was originally paying around $70/month for a 2nd line, calls, and access
> charges. Telstra charge $78/month for their cheapest unlimited type account
> as
> long as you also use Telstra for local/long distance calls.
>
> For me it even works out a little better because by having Bigpond (ADSL),
> phone, and mobile on the same bill I receive a 10% discount.
>
> I regularly game on the Optus at Home quake3 servers and have a ping around
> 100ms. On good days this will average around the 90ms mark and bad days over
> 200ms. The last week has seen regular 200ms ping times during the days. Also,
> I have been having packet loss problems in short 20-30sec durations over the
> last couple days. This is happening at the vic. ADSL/telstra network gateway
> router.
>
> An added bonus of having broadband access is the speed of downloading linux
> distro ISO images ;) I'm currently grabbing the complete set of RH7.1 CDs.
>
>
> Later,
>
> Jason Nicholls
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