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Internetworking with Internode. 97%

By Nick Hodge | November 30, 2006

Quiet week in the ‘cottage.

Phase 1 of the de-installation of Big­pond as our ISP: Inter­node, all the way! Added ADSL via Inter­node: the highest qual­ity Aussie-owned ISP in Aus­tralia, to the home net­work. Once Tel­stra Whole­sale get their act together, the next step is 8Mbit/s. It seems that Tel­stra has not cor­rectly pro­vi­sioned their IT for ADSL resellers.

Based on the low qual­ity of cable modem inter­net in our part of Sydney, 8Mbit/s will match our so-called “up to 17MBit/s” on Big­pond Extreme. This is due to the shared band­width nature of cable.

Internode’s back­haul, or through­put to their serv­ers and to the inter­net the US, is amaz­ing. That’s why they have a 97% refer­ral rate accord­ing to CRN.

Also signed on to Node­phone, Internode’s Voice-over-IP ser­vice. Plugged in the land­line to the Bil­lion Router, and we have low Aus­tralian calls. Installed X-Lite on my Mac, and now I have a softphone.

Also took the oppor­tun­ity to increase the secur­ity on our local wire­less to WPA. Leav­ing WEP and MAC layer fil­ters in the past as they are eas­ily cracked. We don’t wish to become the local ISP for the neighborhood.

Yes, my super­fund is an investor in T3. But Bigpond’s recent com­ments as to net­work con­trol is a major con­cern: and I am vot­ing with my liquid dol­lars. Business-wise, I trust that Tel­stra man­age­ment grok the new IP/digital world ahead.

So, on the Xmas list: ADSL2+ and Node­phone Direct-in-Dial.

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