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RE: Woohoo!! Bush Internet.TV Success!!


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  • Subject: RE: Woohoo!! Bush Internet.TV Success!!
  • From: "Mick Furlong" <dorsai@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 23:35:36 -0000
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Steve a wonderful technical achievement....and I don't mean to put your
results down but why?

if you have ADSL and your own internal network what is the value of doing
this with such a low access speed?

Honest I am not being disparaging just wondering if I should be out hunting
down one of these boxes?

Cheers
Mick


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Morgan [mailto:steve@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 05 December 2001 23:24
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Woohoo!! Bush Internet.TV Success!!
>
>
> Yay, you fargin bar stewards!!
>
> OK. Calm down.
>
> Tonight, having found that ToysRUs were only sending me one STB
instead of
> the two that I ordered, I popped to my local store and managed to pick
one
> up.
>
> Connected it up and logged into BushInternet - strike 1.
>
> Changed ISP params and logged into Demon - strike 2.
>
> Spent the next 2 hours p*ing around with Routing and Remote
> Access on one of
> my W2k servers.
>
> STB plugged into one extension of my PBX. Dials another extension
> of my PBX
> that is connected to the server via a modem.
>
> I'M IN - Strike 3 - BushInternet.com - you're outa here!
>
> Tomorrow (or maybe Friday, I'm out tomorrow night), I've got to
> sort out the
> routing, 'cos DNS isn't working properly at the mo and I'm too tired
to do
> it now, but I have managed to surf web sites on my own network.
>
> With the routing sorted, I'll be connecting to the Internet via
> ADSL (though
> only at 33k6 'cos of the modem).
>
> So, if you've got a PBX, you can connect it up using RAS for free.
>
> I'm going to bed a happy man :-)
>
> Steve
>
>
>
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