From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 00:00:25 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1372 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Friday 13 October 2006 Number 1372 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: Telstra's Heart is broken ! : Ed Durrant **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 05:47:32 +1000 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: Telstra's Heart is broken ! Michael/Gail Peters wrote: > Ed, > > Don't be a sophist ; -) tell us how...... > I'm staring down the barrell at this : > > 'Maxon Australia are developing further NextG capable modems. Check out > our development blog maxoncdma dot com dot au/3gblog (brand new).' > > for my (wife's) desktop. Will I need the usual Win gateway and the Win > software ( Australian) router Nat32 to enable OS/2? > > I am onsatellite now and there's no escape....do you offer hope? > > M. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Durrant" > To: > Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 8:29 PM > Subject: Telstra's Heart is broken ! > > >> Some would say Telstra doesn't have a heart. Some would say it was >> broken when that American, Sol took the helm, others would say it >> broke when the government decided to sell it off in a series of fire >> sales. >> >> Actually the Heart I'm referring to here is the heartbeat signal used >> on Telstra's "Bigpond Cable" network. >> >> This network get "maintenance" occasionally and often following this I >> have to tell my Linksys router to disconnect and reconnect. >> Occasionally this is not enough and I have to restart the modem as >> well. On this occasion I did the usual disconnect, wait, connect >> process and after a while I got the "heartbeat signal not found" >> pop-up message that usually means I need to restart the modem as well. >> But as I was preparing to do this, Thunderbird beeped and informed me >> I had new mail. When I checked I did indeed have Internet connectivity >> despite the failure message. I put this down to a timing problem - >> that the link had in fact been made exactly at the same time as the >> error was being generated. I thought no more about this until now .... >> >> In the November Australian Personal Computer magazine in its broadband >> section, there's an announcement that Telstra have turned off the >> heartbeat servers and now you only need to connect the router to the >> cable modem to get access. No more heartbeat (and hence also no more >> logon) required ! >> >> This is good news for people looking to buy a router, they no longer >> have to check that the router supports the Telstra Heartbeat or if >> they can download modified code to make it support the heartbeat >> function. >> >> Also if you don't want to use a hardware router at all, and want to >> use your OS/2 system instead, you can now simply connect it to the >> modem (or a switch connected to the modem) and you don't need the REXX >> or Java BPLOGON agents any more. You probably should configure the >> TCP/IP stack in firewall mode if you don't have a hardware firewall >> however (a handy utility to configure this feature comes in eCS 2.0 >> beta2 or can be added) ! >> >> Cheers/2 >> >> Ed. > >> >> > >> > > > > From what I have seen, Telstra's "Next G" offering is simply Telstra reselling Hutchinson's '3' product, extending it into country Australia. In fact I have heard that in Sydney and Melbourne the Telstra Next-G service is in fact run for Telstra by '3" using Hutchinsons equipment ! And the good news is YES OS/2 users can use the '3' third generation network - please read my article on voice from a few months back: www.os2voice dot org/VNL/past_issues/VNL0606H/feature_1.html (it looks like the Voice server is down for maintenance at the moment, so try in a while). This Mobile wireless is presently only at 384Kb/s however Vodaphone have just announced that they are testing their implementation at 1.8Mb/s in my area, so I would expect the other suppliers to follow suit in the next few months. Cheers/2 Ed. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------