[plug] Grumble, grumble, Windows strikes again

[Craig Foster]

'Couse they don't own DSLAMs, they're not into being a Telco... yet...
AFAIK RequestDSL are the only people with DSLAMs in local exchanges,
explaining why the RequestDSL coverage is so different from Telstras.
RequestDSL also also noticeable by using the roaring penguin diagnostics
to see whether you're connected to wellington-wt1.per.bigpong.net.au
. If you are? you're on a Telstra derived account. - eg iiNet, Highway1,
etc.

This is Request's selling point - they say they don't have the reliability
issues of Telstra as they don't use their gear (and they enforce managed
cisco routers on all their customers for QoS (maybe BS? but hey))

Any more Q?

Regards,

Craig Foster
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leon Brooks [mailto:leon at brooks.fdns.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, 8 January 2002 1:15 PM
> To: Perth Linux User Group
> Subject: [plug] Grumble, grumble, Windows strikes again
>
>
> I'm currently shopping around for broadband access, and
> discovered a couple
> of interesting things after talking to iiNet. One of them
> is that they filter
> ``code red,'' or in other words *all* HTTP access to their
> ADSL clients.
> Thanks for that, Bill.
>
> The other is that iiNet don't actually own any DSLAMs,
> they're all owned by
> Telstra. So if you buy ADSL through (for example) Indigo,
> you're getting it
> from a reseller for iiNet who in turn are a reseller for
> Telstra. The current
> choice in ADSL with affordable download limits is really
> Telstra or Telstra.
> Not healthy.
>
> One other thing, if you get iiNet's ``unlimited'' ADSL
> account, it's
> throttled at 10GB/month. The iiNet bloke was unable to tell
> me how throttled.
>
> Cheers; Leon
>
>
>
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