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BYO Linux Router To Australia's Fibre Network

Posted by timothy on from the please-live-near-the-coast dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Run a Linux router to connect your ADSL service but worried about what will happen when the Australian Government rolls out fibre broadband to your house or business? Worry no more. It turns out that customers on Australia's new National Broadband Network will be able to run their own homebrew Linux router to connect to the network and route traffic any way they please."

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  1. As one would expect nowadays, but ... by wilfie · · Score: 4, Informative

    Virgin in the UK used to refuse support until you connected a Mac or Windows box directly. Routers were 'not supported'.

  2. Re:What's the story? by mjwx · · Score: 4, Funny

    Tonight at 11, "Connecting your fridge to australian intertubes. What will be the minimum legal size for chicken breasts?".

    Dont laugh, I've already soldered an RJ45 connection to the iron. The cat is next.

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  3. Re:What's the story? by Thanshin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dont laugh, I've already soldered an RJ45 connection to the iron. The cat is next.

    I think soldering an RJ45 to your cat will probably kill it.

    I case I misunderstood you, ironing your cat will also kill it.

  4. This is news? by Osty · · Score: 4, Informative

    Doesn't every ISP allow you to do this? Your ISP provides with a modem of the correct type (DSL or cable) and you provide your own router. If they give you a modem that is also a router, you can turn that off or ask them for a plain old modem. With many ISPs, at least in the US, you can even provide your own modem.

    I've been running my own Linux router for the past 12 years across multiple ISPs, from T1 providers back in college to DSL providers to Comcast, and have never had a problem doing so. The tech support may be clueless if you call ("Did you reboot your router?" "Let me do that ...

  5. breaking news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    linux users will also still be able to use the national electricity network to power their devices.

  6. Re:What's the story? by rjch · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dont laugh, I've already soldered an RJ45 connection to the iron. The cat is next.

    I think soldering an RJ45 to your cat will probably kill it.

    Yeah, RJ45 connectors are plastic and will melt easily. Much better just to crimp it to the cat. Just make sure you get out of the way very quickly afterwards.

  7. Re:What's the story? by jimicus · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think soldering anything to a cat puts the solderer at greater risk than the solderee.

  8. Re:What's the story? by dangitman · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dont laugh, I've already soldered an RJ45 connection to the iron. The cat is next.

    Are you using CAT-5e or CAT-6?

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  9. Re:What's the story? by MichaelSmith · · Score: 5, Funny

    We had this pot belly stove in the corner of the living room and during the summer the cat loved to use it to survey the room at eye level but when we used it for the first time in the autumn there was this horrible screech and the cat rocketed across the living room, into the kitchen and stopped, buffing, under the kitchen table.

    The treatment for burns is immediate immersion in cold water and fortunately the bath was half full so I picked up the cat and started to "immerse" the patient in the water. I tell you, the resulting scratches lasted months.

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