Re: [SLUG] ISPs and Permanent Static IPs

[Jon Biddell <jon@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:46 PM 8/7/00, Roland Turner wrote:
> George Vieira wrote:
>
> > I just found out that ADSL and HDSL don't have the facility to support
> > multiple IPs on the 1 link, fair enough I guess as it's basically a dial up
> > account.
>
> Telstra is, once again, displaying its facility for misunderstanding
> what a technology can be used for. They sold ISDN as a slightly cheaper
> unreliable replacement for permanent point to point data links (I forget
> the name of the old service), thereby helping ISDN to not happen much in
> this country. Now they are selling ADSL as a fast, permanent,
> single-user dial-up service, thereby, once again, minimising potential
> revenue and growth of the technology.

And I wonder what they will do when they realise that those of us lucky 
enough to have ADSL (not me - I live to far from the exchange, apparently) 
will possibly be running MASQ boxes on our home networks - they won't be 
able to see your network, so it'll look like a single machine...

Then there's the question about a "windows only" install - I've been told 
from a (usually) reliable source that they will not connect anything up if 
you aren't running Evilware - why the hell they just can't bring their 
laptop to verify the service works and leave it at that I don't know - 
personally, I wouldn't let a telstra tech touch any of my machines anyway.

Jon