Toby Corkindale <[email protected]> wrote: > sigh. yeah, but it'll be 2020 by the time we get rid of them, and in > the meantime I'd really, really like to have vaguely-usable internet > access. >
How good is cable (especially DOCSIS 3) in Melbourne now? It used to be unfriendly to Linux, requiring, as I recall, a special login tool for Telstra and restricting "servers" from being run under Optus, and I'm not sure about speed or reliability. > Although since Optus or Telstra apparently accidentally unplugged my > port on the DSLAM last week and I was without any internet access at > all for a while, I suddenly realised that 3-4 mbit is a lot better > than none at all! An advantage of having a reasonably modern mobile device (phone or tablet, for example) is that it can serve as an emergency Internet connection in case of a fixed-line outage such as you describe. _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
