Hello Rowan_Crowe!

Sunday September 28 1997 20:24, Rowan_Crowe wrote to Ger Vloothuis:

 RC> Telstra are apparently removing their firewall, but I can understand their
 RC> concerns. I suggested a cable modem to Tony to use as an alternative
 RC> dialup connection, rather than a replacement for a permanent modem or ISDN
 RC> connection.
 RC> Cable modems also have IP addresses dynamically assigned, and use
 RC> proprietary software. 35c per Mb...

And what, 100 free megs/month.   At their reported download speeds, you'd
be very tempted to be downloading a lot of "large" files since
they would download so "quickly" and I can imagine that unless
you're rather strict you'd easily waste a lot of $$$$...

Regards,

        Tony

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