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Taso Hatzi (taso@esands.com) wrote:
There is a section in cable-modem-HOWTO describing how you could connect 
to Telstra.  They are clearly stated in there.

Other than the charges, I would say the cost of the modem ($495) is the 
main issue.  They should have do something similar to US or other place 
else, that either rent it to you  or give you for free.  You have to pay 
the modem yourself and have no use if you move or disconnected.

: Pete 
Johnson wrote: : > 
: > what is the easiest way to connect to the internet via Bigpond cable
: > with Linux?
: > 
: 
: If the one-and-only Bigpond cable installation I have seen is typical,
: all you need do is connect the Ethernet card in your Linux box to the
: cable modem with the UTP cable (both supplied by Bigpond). There is a
: DHCP
: server at Bigpond central so configure the Linux box to get an IP number
: via DHCP. I have never figured out whether Linux can be programmed with
: the IPs of DNs servers via DHCP, so you may have to do these by hand.
: 
: Also, you have to ring up Bigpond and ask for the cable modem to be
: 'activated'.
: 
: I believe the DHCP server at Bigpond central will hand out up to 4(?) IP
: numbers through one cable modem, which means you can connect the cable
: modem to a hub & plug several computers into that. The hardest part is
: figuring out how to pay for it at $60 per month + $0.35 per MB over what
: you get for 'free'.