[clug] TransAct ISP

[Brian Morris]

Hi Francis,

This has been around for a while but as far as I am aware you MUST be using
one of the newer set top boxes for this to work.  The old motorolla stb's
wont work, you need the newer silver-with-blue-face boxes with a seperate
marconi modem.

If you have it working with different hardware can you please let us know as
we have lots of customers who would love this.

We even add those routes for you at login :-)

Regards,

Brian Morris
NetSpeed.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Francis James Whittle" <fudje at phreaker.net>
To: <crash at michaelcarden.net>
Cc: <linux at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: [clug] TransAct ISP


> Apart from a tendency to disconnect you 1433 minutes after connection (7
> minutes short of 24 hours -- go figure?) which I personally don't have
> problems with due to automatic reconnection - however some debian
> systems apparently don't handle that well, and a single episode where
> the routers were out and they wouldn't even tell us what was going on,
> CyberOne (http://www.cyberone.com.au/) have been pretty good for us -
> and they offer uncapped plans that give you a slightly lower traffic
> priority although I've never noticed a significant speed deficiency.
>
> <tangent>
> Just out of interest, did anyone know that you can stream TransTV
> straight to your linux box - the i3 Mood Digital TV system actually runs
> on a strange but effective high-speed Ethernet bridge over the cable
> system.  You can, after setting up appropriate routes:
>
> route add -net 224.0.0.0/4 dev eth0
> route add -net 192.168.0.0/16 dev eth0
>
> (Yes, that is a 4 bit netmask there: that's multicast) use a media
> player that supports RTP over UDP and mpeg1 transport streams (with full
> surround audio ;-) such as VideoLan or Xine (I prefer Xine from them) -
> GStreamer 0.7 supports multicast udp as well but setting up video
> decoders is hard and gst-player does *not* support it.  However you can
> relay through a FIFO to mplayer which at least has a decent deinterlacer
> - and connect to 239.193.0.x on port 8208 for the video stream where x
> is one of (these are really fairly obvious - Mostly the same as channel
> numbers):
>
> 2 for ABC
> 5 for Transact Info Channel (Kinda' pointless, but hey)
> 7 for Prime
> 8 for SBS
> 9 for WIN
> 10 for Ten
> 11 for House of Reps.
> 12 for Senate
> 14 for BBC World
> (17) for SBS World News (I think)
> 18 for LNTV (Only has mono audio and plays on one speaker - very
> annoying.  But then, I don't speak Mandarin anyway.)
> 19 for TV5
> 20 for DW
> 22 for ABC Analogue (and 4:3)
> 27 for Prime Analogue (and 4:3)
> (96 for Disney Channel, but it's encrypted(?))
>
> eg: xine udp://239.193.0.2:8208 will get you 16:9 aspect ratio surround
> sound ABC with full support for Xv or VIDIX.... and gives you a short
> rewind buffer (although you tend you lose sync when you go back to the
> stream end).
>
> Nice for cron-based recording, perhaps?
>
> Just something I thought I should share with you all....
> </tangent>
>
> Francis
>
> On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 12:51, Michael Carden wrote:
> > Sorry to rehash a possibly tired topic, but...
> >
> > Among the recent discussions regarding suitable ISPs for ADSL etc, I
have a
> > vague recollection that TransAct was mentioned along the way.
> >
> > Well, Jo has decreed that we should become a TransAct household so I've
signed
> > up for their phone/TV/data package.
> >
> > Now all I need is an ISP. One with a Debian mirror would be excellent.
One at
> > least slightly Linux-friendly would be good. One that won't send me
broke
> > paying for throughput will suffice though.
> >
> > Does the CLUG hive-mind have any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > MC
> -- 
> Francis James Whittle
> BSEng Student,
> Australian National University
> Canberra, Australia
>
>
>