Re: Telstra cancelling dial up services

From	"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	aus.computers
Subject	Re: Telstra cancelling dial up services
Date	2015-09-04 19:41 +1000
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Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> wrote
> Rod Speed wrote
>> Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> wrote
>>> Clocky wrote
>>>> Computer Nerd Kev wrote
>>>>> Clocky <notgonna@happen.com> wrote
>>>>>> Xeno wrote

>>>>>>> Speaking of internet access when out and about. A friend was 
>>>>>>> recently on a bus between Florida and New York and the bus had a 
>>>>>>> free Wifi hotspot.

>>>>>>> I would like to see that here on buses, trains, etc.

>>>>>> Our local town has free internet although it's a bit patchy.

>>>>> Is that the WAFreeNet (http://www.wafreenet.org/)?

>>>> No, that doesn't extend this far south. It's a local council thing I 
>>>> believe.

>>> I doubt that it is a local council.

>> Some local councils have done that.

> Quite likely but you will find that in those situations it is to provide 
> internet access to their local community. WAFreenet does not have that as 
> their aim.

You don’t know he is using that.

>>> I also doubt that it has much of a connection to the wider internet at 
>>> large, if their website is anything to go by. It seems rather more a 
>>> network of enthusiast's networks.

>> You don’t know he is using that.

> It is not a "he",

That expatriate pseudo kraut is.

> it is a group of IT enthusiasts and if you bother to look at their 
> webpage, they pretty much tell you that! In that sense, it is identical to 
> Melbourne Wireless.

You don’t know he is using that.

>>> A similar thing in Victoria is Melbourne Wireless.
>>> http://melbourne.wireless.org.au/

>> You don’t know that his has anything to do with that.

> Actually, I do!

Like he hell you do.

> It is you who are just guessing.

Nope.

> The two groups

You don’t know that he is using WAFreenet.

> are independent though there are common linkages. One of those links is 
> the chap who owns this company; http://www.duxtel.com.au/

You don’t know that he is using WAFreenet.

> If you really want to find out more about wafreenet.org.au,

I don’t.

> then I suggest you contact Mike at Duxtel. He supports them, probably as 
> much as he supports us at Melbourne Wireless. I might add, you will find 
> Mike (Duxtel) in attendance at almost every Melbourne Wireless monthly 
> meeting. Mike often brings along gear to donate to MW members. On the last 
> occasion I attended, he gave me some redundant equipment from a caravan 
> park whose WiFi system he was upgrading.

You don’t know that that expatriate pseudo kraut is using WAFreenet.

> If you look at http://www.wafreenet.org/Information
> You will see that Melbourne Wireless and WAFreenet are pretty much 
> identical in their ideals.

You don’t know that that expatriate pseudo kraut is using WAFreenet.

> I see they too will give a limited form of internet access to members 
> through the generosity of individual members, same as Melbourne Wireless.

You don’t know that that expatriate pseudo kraut is using WAFreenet.

> Were I still in Melbourne, I would by now be "donating" as much as 200-250 
> GB of data allowance per month as it was, at that time, surplus to my 
> needs. My hassle in Melbourne was the location of my house. I had only one 
> potential access point - One Tree Hill at Kangaroo Ground. It was the only 
> direction from my house where I had a clear line of sight to a MW node. 
> The problem for me was that all the connections (currently 6) at the 
> Kangaroo Ground site were Point To Point. That meant that each 
> transmitter/antenna on the tower was aimed at a particular node in a 
> specific part of Melbourne, even to one just a kilometre or two from my 
> home. There was no multipoint node there for me to connect to thereby 
> easily enabling me to link my home to the Melbourne Wireless network. The 
> only way I would have been able to access the Melbourne Wireless network 
> through the tower was to purchase and install equipment for my own Node on 
> the tower at Kangaroo Ground. I was in the process of organising that when 
> health issues forced a move away from Melbourne.

You don’t know that that expatriate pseudo kraut is using WAFreenet.

>>> I see my node is still extant even though I no longer live in the state. 
>>> I still have all my mesh networking gear, including my dish, but there 
>>> seems little interest in such activities in my current domicile.

>>> Melbourne Wireless is not council supported but does have a degree of 
>>> internet access. That access is, however, provided through the
>>> generosity of members who are willing to share their broadband access
>>> with the MW community. MW seems to be doing well and a new subgroup
>>> for the Geelong region has been set up in recent times and most areas
>>> around Port Philip Bay have a degree of access depending on what type
>>> of node is nearby.

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