Hello All, On Fri, 2013-05-10 at 07:30 +1000, zlinw@mcmedia.com.au wrote:
Much thanks for both offers of DVD's its much apreciated, although it does raise the difficulty of which kind offer to chose, but I will figure that out.
Whomever, may I request a set of DVD's, I am on a 56K modem. Let me know and I will try to sort out blank disks and postage if reasonable. My responses may be delayed if my work involves early starts and long days.
A comment on Russell's post regarding koganmobile, the problem with this is the data per day is limited to 400Mbytes, this means one cannot simply get large items like even a CD image. I found this type of restriction was common on monthly based accounts. Such a restriction almost never applies to prepaid data which is one of the reasons I have chosen to take that path.
Since there are times I desire to get larger items, I am following this with interest. As to with whom, price and effective coverage are significant issues. Telstra is the real option, except I dislike assisting their management salary packages.
A point I will bring up on service selection, I will not if at all possible deal with faceless organisations, both internet service providers I deal with have real people one can talk to. I ___HATE___ organisations which go to great lengths to put there customers at arms length (ie most of them). I have found Virgin's support to be a major breath of fresh air, where organisations like Telstra apparently could not care less.
It would help if all providers would acknowledge that Linux is standards compliant at the networking level. I want real support for the connection. What I have to do to achieve the result is up to me. I do not expect to need to be told how, just what. Currently, Telstra will not provide "support" for Linux, including the simple link metrics. Regards, Mark Trickett