This one time, at band camp, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > Is there a way of getting ADSL at home without paying for a landline? I > use my mobile for everything, and don't use the landline but am paying > for it to run ADSL on.
Nope. Welcome to Australia, where we subsidize privately owned corporations whether we like it or not. Think yourself lucky you can at least get decent ADSL. My line is connected via a RIM (little mini exchange in the street) so I can't get ADSL2+ connected and instead have to connect via a Telstra port, so I'm once again subsidizing Telstra. My line rental is the same, despite getting a diminished service. My only recourse is to keep getting paper bills and to pay by credit card. This at least costs the bastards money. > I know there's things like wireless from http://www.unwired.com.au/, but > to get decent downloads the costs would work out the same. I'm currently using Unwired while waiting for my ADSL to get connected. The service is appalling. At best I get dialup speeds, with higher latency. The software to monitor the Unwired modem, while written in Java, doesn't work. It's got this weirdo install script and I don't know enough about Java to get it going. -- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.rumble.net Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other. - Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
