[plug] Free WAIX traffic for WA Swiftel users

[Ben Jensz]

Yup, same at work.  We're on a 1.5Mbit bridged connection with WestNet 
as well.

We had a slight problem with a couple of sites following the layer2 
issues that WestNet has been having, but that was fixed in less 5 
minutes after a quick email to WestNet.  Other than that, our connection 
has been fine.  WestNet rarely have outages, and the ones they have had 
have been scheduled ones and they have notified their customers of these 
happening a couple of days in advance and they are always carried out in 
the wee hours of the morning anyway when they do happen.

It also decreases the areas where outages could occur as there is no 
authentication on it, so it literally is always on.  It has also meant 
no downtime at all for us when other users have been having severe 
problems due to a complete stuff up by Telstra.  The only downtime I 
have noticed during business hours that I can remember was for about 5 
minutes around about 3 weeks ago when there were Telstra techs in our 
street playing with phone wires.

We personally use a Cisco 827 ADSL router for our bridged connection and 
its absolutely flawless.


/ Ben


Scott Middleton wrote:

>We are on WestNet with a bridged account. To be honest we haven´t lost
>connection in the last 3 months (that i am aware of).  In June we
>downloaded over 74GB. Free WAIX is definite boon! 
>WestNet is having problems with their Layer2 service at them moment but
>fortunately it doesn't affect most of our clients because they are 
>bridged.
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