[LINK] Goodbye....

[Stephen Edgar]

Just wondering if you had tried subverting Pacific's "sales staff" and sending a nice email to postmaster at mail-zeta.pacific.net.au directly?


Cheers,
 
Stephen Edgar
 
Netweb Interactive
Melbourne, Australia
https://twiter.com/netweb

-----Original Message-----
From: link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au [mailto:link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of grove at zeta.org.au
Sent: Tuesday, 22 October 2013 3:45 PM
To: link at anu.edu.au
Subject: [LINK] Goodbye....

....and Hello.

My ancient email address, as I first subscribed to Link with, is about to go to the bitbucket.  I got this coveted address when I originally joined Kralizec Dialup UNIX, I believe on recommendation from another Link member.

Kralizec was run by the erstwhile Nick Andrew, who obviously loved what he did.  He was very disappointed to know that my zeta email address can't be forwarded to my new ISP.

It seems that Pacific Internet, who through a long period of acquisitions ultimately acquired Zeta cannot bring themselves to create a simple email forwarding rule, for which I would be eternally grateful and 
happy to pay a yearly fee for.   So, although I am not sentimental, 
I do shed a little tear for this email address which I actually consider 
very special for many reasons.   Thus I will also have to get around 
to fixing my .signature and update my subscriptions.  To anyone who has an email address as old as mine you know what a pain it is to convert all those horrible forums, LinkedIn, Twitter etc etc.  This is my second last job before I move to the new account.  I still have to cut over my AppleID to the new account and do likewise for Rob.  Just paid another $135 to keep my Pacific account open long enough to do this.  That's $135 for "up to" 
20MBps ADSL2+, which I was lucky to get 4MBps out of.

The upshot is, Pathetic Internet don't do "NBN".  They actually seem to have an ideological opposition to it.
But We now have a full FTTH connection thanks to NBNCo and Exetel. 
We got a Single Mode fibre connection and associated ONT all done for $50. 
They even installed the gear directly into our upstairs home office and we were back on the Internet again in a day.

We also just converted our PSTN phone to a VOIP account, also with Exetel.
We also got to keep our phone number so that was something.  I have to say that initially scoping NBN services was a bit confusing, but I decided to go with Exetel as they seemed to have a good rep and don't filter or cut service ports like other ISP's.  The catch is that you are basically on your own regarding support other than typical infrastructure issues upstream.
But once we selected a provider, getting connected etc was simple enough.

I am considering doing some "consulting" around getting subscribers on the NBN, as I believe there is a short term market to assist in getting connected.
Although I found the setup etc initially confusing, I didn't have trouble, but I suspect many people would, so perhaps there is something can be done there.  We got a 100/40 connection.  It is quite fast, but we don't notice the speed bump much given the latency on many websites, but where I was pulling down a multi gb file, it was clear the performance is there. Likewise pushing a package from home up to my work desktop over SSH/SCP is way fast - 100Mb in a few minutes, not several cups of tea etc....

So, there is my little tale and a farewell to my coveted Zeta address.

Goodbye.....  ....and hello!


rachel

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Rachel Polanskis                 Kingswood, Greater Western Sydney, Australia
grove at zeta.org.au                http://www.zeta.org.au/~grove/grove.html
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