iiNet

BAD NEWS:
Now I've been all round this great big ISP world, and I've seen all kinds of providers.

iiNet has been good. A pioneer of flipping the bird at the evils of Telstra, and splashing out on a multitude of high-speed DSLAMS.

I was there for the VIX free peering traffic, which spawned the VIX DC hub.

And then the VIX eDonkey server.

Then the VIX DC vs VIX eDonkey wars.

Then the VIX torrent tracker.

Then the VIX DC vs VIX torrent wars. Those DC fanboys are sure rusted on.

Then the Swiftel raid where everyone shat themselves 'cause the "we are just sharing Linux ISO's amongst one another" b.s. just didn't cut it for the men in blue.

But iiNet was good, even if you were paying a bit extra, which you almost always weren't, because you knew some of that money was being used to help implement the next generation of ADSL hardware.

And good ADSL hardware too, CISCO, not that bodgy bankrupted-company brand Telstra was charging an arm and a leg for.

But recently the plans got worse, and the list of exchanges they would upgrade dropped dramatically. Currently, those on iiNet DSLAMs get kick-arse plans, those on Telstra hardware get boned.

I'm on Telstra hardware, and most of the 'burbs around me (quite a few smaller ones too) aren't.

So, fuck you iiNet. You cunts. I understand why it had to be done, but you probably went a bit too far with these plans, and you dropped 'grandfathered' mid-contract 1500's to 512, and it's lame and I'm pissed off.

Now I gotta go to freakin' Optus. OPTUS FFS. Sing-hang-the-drug-mule-tel!

GOOD NEWS:
I've been wanting a new kettle for a while. Now my current one doesn't want to switch off when the waters boiled, and I can totally justify buying a new one. One that you can actually scrub clean. Hurrah! Simple things! Simple things!