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

[Mark Gibson]

At 9:43 AM +1000 26/8/03, Thomas 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.

I have a network and all I've done is configured 
the Router (Netgear MR314) to connect using the 
Bigpond user details that they provided. Then all 
my other machines (1 x OS 9, 2 x 10.2.6 and 1 x 
10.2.6 Server) use the DHCP settings from the 
Router.

Hope that helps.

Regards,

Mark
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