[X-Apps] Telstra Big Pond Cable for Mac OS X ? (Australia)

[Thomas]

Thanks, Mark and Bob.

As I suspected, it is possible without Classic.

Regards
Thomas

On Tuesday, Aug 26, 2003, at 11:45 Australia/Sydney, Bob wrote:

>> At 10:11 AM 26/8/03, Mark Gibson wrote:
>>> The Telstra support people say, depending on who you talk to (a) you 
>>> can't use OSX at all with their cable; (b) you have to run some 
>>> software in classic to make it work and then use a classic browser; 
>>> (c) you can download some Mac OS X software to make it work.
>>>
>>> Has anybody successfully used Mac OSX with Telstra cable? If so, how 
>>> did you do it?
>>
>> Thomas,
>>
>> I'm happily using it (and have for about 18mths now.
>>
>> Indeed Telstra provides a "Bigpond Toolbar" product that gives you 
>> live updates of your consumption. Its available as a OS 9 or OS X 
>> product.
>>
>> If you only have a single connection you need to use (last time I 
>> looked anyway) a Classic App to connect.
>
> Mark,
>
> Although I am now using a router I previously used an OSX application 
> with Telstra cable. I suggest that you read 
> <http://whirlpool.net.au/faq-mac.cfm#2.2.2.5> and then download 
> Launch! from
> <http://curmi.com/software/mac/launch/>. This application works quite 
> well.
>
> Bob
>
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