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[Leon Brooks]

On Tue, 6 Aug 2002 20:05, Craig Ringer wrote:
> XF864.2 required?

I think 4.1 will do but 4.2 definitely does. Mandrake 8.2 + KDE 3 has this 
neat little checkbox `use anti-aliasing for fonts'.

> I've been looking at ADSL plans and it
> looks like since I last checked a couple of months ago iiNet has gone to
> new plans (crap, a few gigs of data then shaped to 56k, plus blocks
> ports of services I use like https and smtp) and westnets aren't as good
> as last time I checked either.

Eh? $80 a month buys you 3G during daylight plus static IP, free WAIX, free 
midnight-to-dawn and no throttling (6c/MB over). What more could you want? 
(-:

Oh, and it works in Albany, Geraldton, and other places (they've taken down 
the list, how helpful).

Interesting footnote from WN's FAQ: WinXP may power down your USB hub to save 
power, disconnecting your ADSL link!

> Eftel want your soul for access, plus
> $15/month for unmetered WAIX, and they've gone and bought q-net
> sometime.

And consequently QNet lost their Debian mirror and started transproxying.

> Shouldn't a contract be binding for the period of the contract and
> changeable only by the consent of both parties?

Actually, between the time I started looking at ADSL and the time I was told 
ADSL wouldn't reach here, they changed for the better (and, surprise, WestNet 
have just added satellite and wireless in the last few days).

Wireless is - as usual - f'ing expensive (like $250 a month flagfall) but 
works in Perth, Geraldton, Bunbury, Kalgoorlie, Esperance (I'd expect to see 
Albany and a few other northern towns added soon).

Satellite is $60 (256k) or $70 a month (400k) plus the cost of a modem 
account, plus $600-1200 for a dish. Satellite, like modem, works anywhere in 
the state. I'm impressed that Hall's Creek is listed as one of their 
`nominated service centres'. (-:

> I've actually seriously thought about seeing if I can get multilink or
> some kind of IP load balancing working and just get 2x56k - it'd be
> decent, un-capped, and I'd know that I would be getting the same thing
> next month too.

I'm currently running 64k DoV to ArachNet, and they've only booted me off 
twice today (once was an accounting stuffup), which would work out at around 
$50 total per month. With a dual link (128k) add $22 and double the call 
costs, so $84 a month. Expect to drop off once or twice a month with a 
`permanent' account ($77 one channel, $99 dual).

Disclaimers: I would be a WestNet customer but Telstra rudely decided that I 
was too far from the exchange for ADSL. I am an ArachNet customer and have 
just swapped some webpage content for a free uprating to permanent. My 
workplaces use ADSL to iiNet, Telstra and Optus, modems/DoV to iiNet, Indigo, 
Open Systems and ArachNet, and Eftel wireless. I don't benefit from or get 
paid by anyone for plugging their service. Have you booked your place at 
LCA2003 yet?

Cheers; Leon