Telecom (was: Re: [wellylug] Fw: Comparison of Linux Distributions)
Jamie Dobbs
jamie.dobbs at paradise.net.nz
Mon Nov 12 22:24:35 NZDT 2001
I can burn you a set of Mandrake CD's if you'd like. Latest version is 8.1
and is 3 CDs - if you send me 6 CDs I'll burn you a copy and keep the 3 left
over as 'payment' for my time in downloading them.
Email me directly if you'd like to arrange this.
Cheers
Jamie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeremy Naylor" <e_livingnz at yahoo.co.nz>
To: <wellylug at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 9:58 PM
Subject: Re: Telecom (was: Re: [wellylug] Fw: Comparison of Linux
Distributions)
> Hey Steve,
>
> Nah - no thanks. I think I'll probably buy the CDs
> from DSE or something. ;)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeremy Naylor.
>
> --- Steve Withers <swithers at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> <HR>
> <html><body>
> <tt>
> On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 20:59, you wrote:<BR>
> > Hey guys,<BR>
> ><BR>
> > One thing that I hate about Telecom is that they
> charge their<BR>
> > customers for traffic on JetStream.<BR>
> ><BR>
> > We've got JetStream at home and it can be a big
> problem at times<BR>
> > (partly because of me and my big Net usage).<BR>
> ><BR>
> > I'd quite like to download Mandrake sometime but
> I won't though -<BR>
> > *only* because, as I said before, Telecom is so
> greedy!<BR>
> ><BR>
> > Thanks for letting me vent! ;)<BR>
> ><BR>
> > Thanks,<BR>
> ><BR>
> > Jeremy Naylor.<BR>
> <BR>
> If you get a Telstra Saturn / Paradise cable modem,
> they give you 1,000 <BR>
> MB as part of the package. For an extra $54 / month,
> you get 3 GB on <BR>
> total. For an extra $30 / month you can have 2mb
> access instead of the <BR>
> default 512k. At 2mbps, you can download a 640MB CD
> image in 50 minutes <BR>
> or less. <BR>
> <BR>
> But this quota is international traffic.......NZ
> traffic is rated at <BR>
> 1/10th.....so 1,000MB it is effectively 10,000MB of NZ
> traffic. So if <BR>
> you download your CD images of Linux from an NZ server
> (ftp.ifs.net.nz, <BR>
> I think) then those 640MB CDs only count as 64MB for
> your quota. <BR>
> <BR>
> Plus your phone gets cheaper....and you can have cable
> TV with 25 <BR>
> channels. <BR>
> <BR>
> Telecom? Only if you can't get Telstra Saturn. <BR>
> <BR>
> Steve <BR>
> <BR>
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