Advice Sought: Canberra ISP's

[Andrew Bartlett]

James McNeill wrote:
> 
> I'd reccomend not using BigPond anyway. They are well overpriced and don't
> provide a good quality service. Bigpond also receives far more spam than
> other ISPs if you use their email.
> 
> I'll suggest using TPG (www.tpg.com.au) out of gratitude for their free
> night-rider service that they afford me.(yes, it's free to everyone else
> too). TPG's normal dial-up is quite cheep, and I've been happy with them.
> I've heared unsubstanciated complaints about them, but hey.
> --TPG doesn't block any ports and is good for web servering etc.

I just joined them to get internet access while on the road (I'm with
WebOne ADSL at home) and that worked very well.  They do block ports -
NetBus and some other 3l33t stuff, acording to my portscanner. ;-)

> also very cheep are dodo (www.dodo.com.au) and  froggy (www.froggy.com.au)
> I'd personally rather you don't use Dodo 'cause thier ads anoy me and the
> sooner they can't stop putting them on TV the better. up to you though.
> 
> DONT use ozemail if you want to use your own SMTP server (like I do) because
> the range of dynamic IPs they use is on alot of SPAM blocklists and your
> e-mails will be rejected.
> **Does anyone else know anything about this?**
> 
> Webone (preferably pronounced Wee-Bone ;-) ) is widely used and works over
> TransACT if you have it. Unfortunatly they bock port 25 altogether, so you
> can't receive emails on your SMTP webserver :-(      www.webone.com.au

However, they do offer to MX for your domain, and send it on to your IP
if you ask.

While they won't 'support' Linux, they were able to give me all the
technical information I needed, and certainly don't object.  (I needed
to use PAP not CHAP, and they were able to tell me that!)

Andrew Bartlett

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