Toby Corkindale <toby@dryft.net> 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.