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  From: Alan Kennington <akenning@topology.org>
  To  : LinuxSA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 15:10:59 +0930

Re: Found out why Connect.com does not handle PPP from Linux ...

On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 02:46:15PM +0930, David Newall wrote:
> Richard, with respect, you are being unrealistic if you think you
> can dictate what sort of authentication an ISP must support.  They are
> providing you a PPP link, not a shell account, and it's quite reasonable
> that they only support a PPP authentication method.  Do you expect a
> unix login prompt???


Richard,

I used connect.com.au for a while overseas, and they seemd
to work fine. No problems with SuSE 6.2 on my laptop and
wvdial etc. etc.
But they charge for the months when you don't use it,
whereas internode have no charge in idle months, and their
hourly rate is marginally lower, although their up-front cost 
is higher.
So I swapped to internode GRIC access.

But on the actual quality of the connectivity, I didn't
see any difference at all.
It's all the same system, isn't it?
People like connect.com.au and internode are really just
GRIC retailers, aren't they?

Cheers,
Alan Kennington.

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