Telecom (was: Re: [wellylug] Fw: Comparison of Linux Distributions)
Jeremy Naylor
e_livingnz at yahoo.co.nz
Mon Nov 12 22:31:11 NZDT 2001
Ok - e-mailing ya directly. :)
At 10:24 PM 11/12/2001 +1300, you wrote:
>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>
> > </tt>
> >
> >
> > <br>
> > <tt>
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