[SLUG] Re: ISP Rebranding/ Wholesaleing question (Zenaan Harkness)

[David Peterson <peterson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Zenaan,

I'm not sure that SLUG is the best forum for your question. SLUG tends
to be a technically-focused list on Linux (and occasionally other Unix)
issues. Have you tried asking around on the Whirlpool site, or doing a
Google search on Whirlpool for "reseller" or similar. This is probably
your best bet.

Now there used to be an "OZ ISP" list but I believe this may now be
defunct. To begin your research, you could try to get in touch with a
few major ISPs/telcos (companies like Internode / Agile, People Telecom,
etc spring to mind - but please don't take this as a recommendation) and
 discuss their partner programmes with them.

You probably need to ask yourself whether you plan to set up a full ISP
operation (costly and technically complex) or whether you simply plan to
act as a reseller for an existing ISP (shorter time-to-market, less
capital intensive, etc).

All the best. Hope this helps.

David

> 
> Hi, I'm looking for some information on starting an ISP:
> 
> 1) ISP Upstreams who provide rebranding (must include ADSL).
> 
> 2) Info on ISP backoffice software as well (radius server, etc). I found
> eg. http://www.anime.net/linuxisp/Linux-ISP-HOWTO.html but it's from
> 1995!
> Did give me a good start to reading though... I've been doing a lot of
> reading on software required - dns, email, control panel, etc. Happy for
> recommendations.
> 
> 3) Is there a forum - physical gathering slug-like forum - for small
> to medium ISPs, in Sydney?
> 
> 4) Recommended online community for small/med ISPs?
> 
> PS: I spoke to someone last Friday night, I think John - I discovered
> Sat night that my mailbox was full, unfortunate events... it's emptied,
> although Godaddy's IP addresses are right now RTBLed (couldn't post
> this email to slug), so hopefully gmail might work...
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Zen
>