[plug] Grumble, grumble, Windows strikes again

Leon Brooks leon at brooks.fdns.net
Tue Jan 8 18:22:04 WST 2002


On Tuesday 08 January 2002 18:19, Craig Foster wrote:
> '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?

URL? And I presume that they don't have cheapie 3G accounts...?

Cheers; Leon



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