Re: Linux distro for newbies

James Anastasios wrote:
> Exetel?  Yuck.  Poor support and inflexible reps.

There are plenty of options, Exetel has more than their fair share of 
knockers, but they have over 40,000 customers and overall they are doing 
very well.

> Go Internode if you want high quality with an only slightly higher
> price tag.  I'm in an ADSL2+ area so < 24 mbps is coming soon.  That
> with their extensive mirrors will get me a Debian netinstall in ~ 3
> minutes!  I don't even have to set up a local mirror to roll them out.

It is hard to knock Internode either, they are also an option that I can 
offer -- but usually the Exetel product is far more than adequate for most 
and far cheaper with static IP and no port blocking whatsoever.

Kind Regards

AndrewM

> On 13/09/06, Andrew McGlashan
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Geoffrey Scott wrote:
>>> Go on.....  I'm interested.  What are the alternatives?
>>>
>>> I'm on one of those 400mb Optus cable plans at home.....
>>
>> I resell a bunch of providers, but the best low start plan in my
>> view is the current 512/128 plan with 8GB of included download from
>> Exetel, okay it's not cable, but the 8GB is for use midday to
>> midnight each day and there is an uncounted period between midnight
>> and midday each day that you can download to your heart's content
>> [there may be consequences for downloading more than 30GB during
>> this time though]. This is a very simple and very quick answer, there may 
>> be far better
>> options for others, best thing to do is for those that are
>> interested, send me your normal fixed line phone number [one which
>> can take ADSL] and I will create a report of available options.
>>
>> Kind Regards
>>
>> AndrewM
>>
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