BYO Linux Router To Australia's Fibre Network 123
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from the please-live-near-the-coast dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Run a Linux router to connect your ADSL service but worried about what will happen when the Australian Government rolls out fibre broadband to your house or business? Worry no more. It turns out that customers on Australia's new National Broadband Network will be able to run their own homebrew Linux router to connect to the network and route traffic any way they please."
What's the story? (Score:2, Insightful)
So, when someone brings a new network connection to your house, via a standard ethernet cable, you'll be allowed to connect a device of your choosing to the end? Socking. This makes the frontpage of slashdot now?
Re:Huh? (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:What's the story? (Score:3, Insightful)
Thats nice but... (Score:3, Insightful)
..once the filter kicks in the Internet will stop at your ISP... a bit like owning a ferrari in Antarctica
Re:As one would expect nowadays, but ... (Score:3, Insightful)
I was sooo glad when I moved into an area where I could get service from Internode -- "If it speaks TCP/IP and it works for you, it works for us, too." Heaven.
The downside to policies like that is of course obvious if you've ever worked tech support for an ISP, you get some pretty scary setups that people are trying to bring online. I really didn't mind the truly insane stuff like the guys with 15 year old Amiga towers running some binary hacked version of AmigaOS and various hacked together pieces of hardware, at least those guys knew what they were doing (even if their hardware and software did strange things), it was the guy running Mac OS 9 with IE5 or Win95 OSR2 with Netscape 4.x that hurt, because while the former guys were well aware of just how crazy they were the latter group tended to fly into rants about how their 30 year old car still ran like a charm so why wouldn't a ten year old computer work as well as a new one (to those about to tell me that getting OS 9 or Win95 online really isn't that hard, well no, it isn't, not if you're at the machine, it's got all the necessary drivers and a somewhat fresh operating system install, if you're trying to guide someone who hates computers with a vengeance over the phone and he's using a computer that's been mismanaged since the first day he owned it, yeah, good luck with that).
Re:As one would expect nowadays, but ... (Score:3, Insightful)