Re: Cable broadband providers

It may be a good idea for LUGS exco to engage IDA / service providers to
ensure that the network access on NBN is not Windows & Mac only but is truly
standards based..

Regards
Anand



On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Si-Min <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for letting me know about that 2 hour idle.
>
> My linux is limited to Webbased Distros such as IPcop, Untangle, Astaro
> etc, not skilled in those crons etc.
>
> Anybody know if that NGB have such authentication too since it is one pipe
> to different vendors.
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martin Bähr" <mbaehr-J82dVEKiPgVsIEQYbtjsvCEcasqEdqbRs2V0tQ3P5b8@public.gmane.org>
> To: "Si-Min" <[email protected]>
> Cc: "George Goh" <[email protected]>, "LUGS" <
> [email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 1, 2010 12:52:36 PM GMT +08:00 Beijing /
> Chongqing / Hong Kong / Urumqi
> Subject: Re: [Slugnet] Cable broadband providers
>
> On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 09:50:14AM +0800, Si-Min wrote:
> > I never visually confirmed this myself but I heard that M1 Cable
> > Modem, you need to log in to a website before there is internet
> > connection
>
> that is correct. after the login the connection stays on until there is
> no traffic for two hours.
>
> > which I personally would avoid as the login is not
> > something that the router would do for you after a reboot which means
> > a pain for the rest of the home users if there is a need to reboot
> > etc, further complicate matters with home linux based firewalls.
>
> if you have a linux based firewall you can fix the problem with a
> cron script that checks if the connection is alive every few minutes,
> and does a login otherwise. (the login is scriptable with wget)
>
> otherwise such a script would need to run on every machine.
>
> we went with the M1 6month contract figuring that, if it's not good or
> if something better comes along soon we can get out quickly and are not
> locked in for two years. we considered the 1year starhub offer, but we
> found that the additional tv and phone are of no interest to us (like it
> doesn't help us cut down our mobile phone bills), so m1 comes out cheaper.
>
> speed is fine. the only trouble at the moment is that for some reason,
> vimeo is not allowing connections. (either vimeo is blocking the m1
> proxy, or the proxy itself is broken)
>
> greetings, martin.
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