Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net> writes:
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.
You are remembering "heartbeat". There was a perl script that faked it on Linux ca. 2005, but Telstra stopped needing it a few years later. Can't find a Wikipedia reference, but http://ozcableguy.com/heartbeat.asp Re "contention?" downthread, my vague recollection is that the bandwidth is shared by everyone on the street, so it's fast as long as everyone else on the street has DSL. Cf. DSL runs over a dedicated copper pair between you and the exchange.