cory seligman wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Rohan McLeod <rhn(a)jeack.com.au
> <mailto:rhn@jeack.com.au>> wrote:
>
> cory seligman wrote:
> > I'll be getting my NBN connected in a few weeks and it seems like a
> > good time to retire my old WRT54G routers.
> ...........snip
> Just out of interest:
> 1/ Your ISP won't support any form of Linux ?
> 2/ so their NBN router preferences are not relevant ?
>
>
> My ISP is iiNet. They want to sell me one of their BoB router/modems.
> That's fine, but they don't support GigE and the default config is
> pretty insecure. I reckon for the similar money I can get a router
> with better radio performance and GigE that can be configured to have
> no known backdoors.
>
> iiNet have been pretty good about support. I've been using an
> "unsupported" ADSL modem for years. The only time I ever had a problem
> I rang them an explained what I had and the tech acknowledged that the
> problem must be at their end and fixed it anyways.
When I had one of the early NBN accounts, the iPrimus tech nearly had a
nervous breakdown,
when I finally convinced him there was no phone line input just an
ethernet connection to the NBN box;
wasn't on his script !......hopefully the scripts are better now :-]
regards Rohan Mcleod