Advice Sought: Canberra ISP's

[Sam Couter]

John Bell <jbelllinux at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Linux host.  BigPond here claims not to support Linux!
>  Whether this is because of some proprietary
> connection protocol or simply ignorance on the part of
> their technical staff I don't know.

It's a business decision. What they really mean is if you have problems
and you're using Linux, they won't help you.

There are two reasons why they can get away with this:
1) Linux users are a minority, and BigPond don't care about them
2) Linux users tend to have Clue (tm) and on average need less support
   anyway.

But it's a standard dialup service and will work fine under Linux.
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