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

[Bob]

>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