Brett Pemberton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Jason White <[email protected]> wrote: > > Toby Corkindale <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > How good is cable (especially DOCSIS 3) in Melbourne now? > > It varies. > At my old house, it was very good for downloads (80Mb/s down, ~ 2Mb/s up). > Moved less than a km away, and now it's 20Mb/s down, 1.2Mb/s up. >
Contention? > > 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. > > Not any more. I use their provided modem, plugged into a dd-wrt > rebranded DIR-632. > Absolutely stable and no problems at all. > > Completely OS agnostic. Excellent. The uptake of mobile devices is certainly going to help Linux users in this respect: a service that requires a specific operating system (or one of a handful of systems) will become less attractive over time. Supporting a range of mobile operating systems is more effort than it is worth, when one can simply offer a modem or router that implements standard protocols. Linux in its various forms simply adds to the diversty - not "officially" supported by ISPs, but compatible thanks to networking standards. _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
