[plug] Bloody Telstra

[W.Kenworthy]

This reminds me of the old country exchanges: The town busybody jacking
into calls to listen ...

Not sure it actually happened a lot, but routing unencrypted calls via a
"neighbour" sounds a bit risky.

BillK

On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 09:49 +0800, Leon Brooks wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 November 2005 11:04, David Dartnall wrote:
> > How can we get away from Telstra?
> 
> For services where other providers just don't have the reach or 
> whatever, you can at least use Telstra through a proxy. We use Southern 
> Cross Telco, who resell T services for less. That saves you money up 
> front, and means that less of what you do pay goes to T, but also gives 
> you access to stuff like better mobile coverage than Vodaphone, Optus 
> etc, most of which T are able to offer in large part due to being a 
> monopoly. Not that the other big rpoviders play fair either, it should 
> be noted.
> 
> Sorry for the lack of Linux content. One thing you can do in your own 
> neighbourhood is a wireless router in the roof and VoIP for chatting 
> between neighbours. Roughly 250 calls, maybe two years depending on who 
> you talk to, pays for your equipment.
> 
> You may also be able to route data traffic and VoIP calls for your 
> neighbours. Asterix is great for this, and modern 8x1 megabit ADSL can 
> carry a fair few calls at once. If you get a $60-a-month ADSL account 
> and share it between 5 households, the savings on a dialup or ISDN 
> account apiece pays for six wireless routers very, very quickly.
> 
> Cheers; Leon
>