Sep
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See Ya Later Alphalink

(Add / View Comments) (0)Tuesday, September 19, 2006 - 01:22:35 pm
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All good things must come to an end, apparently. I was dubious about the Chariot buy out of Alphalink at the end of last year, though nothing too bad seemed to happen. However, since June, the cracks have started to show. Firstly I haven't been able to send email to Hotmail for at least a month (strangly fixed last night). Then shell.alphalink.com.au (ssh access) was shut down. In addition, webhosting was moved to another server, which broke all of my websites. Not that easy to fix, without a shell account to debug! And another recent annoyance was discovered - my upload speed being capped at around 3-5kb/s (it was supposed to be 128 kbit).

Not long after this, the change that I have half expecting since December last year, and definately the last straw - decomission of the Alphalink Wireless service. Immediately looking for a new provider I realised (not that I didn't already know) what a good deal Alphalink Wireless was - 2MB/128Kb, 10GB downloads for $33 a month. The main drawcard for Alphalink Wireless was the low cost, rather than the 'coolness' of Wireless, being much cheaper than ADSL (and without the overheads of a phone line). Looking around at other wireless providers in Melbourne, they are definately charging at a premium, and much more than ADSL. Alphalink Wireless was such a sweet deal...

So it didn't take long to give up on that, and reside to getting ADSL, which I'd always been so proud of not having to do thus far. Largely for the cost. But I resigned to the inevitable, forked out for a modem, line splitters and phone line and signed up with Internode.

Kinda sad, given that Alphalink is the only ISP I've been with (8 years July just gone) and up until the Chariot buyout, was the one bill I never minded paying. Though, while the outlay costs combined with paying double a month than what I used to sucks, I'm kinda glad to be away from Alphalink/Chariot given the way the last 9 months have gone. If wireless had of stayed, I probably would have too (the deal was just too good), but leaving those problems behind is kinda nice.

Don't delete my spam!
In addition to all of this, I've been doing some cleaning up of my Alphalink account, retreiving all the stuff I want to keep, and came across Chariot's email management page, and on perusing that, discovered that my email had been given a spam setting of Medium and emails were being deleted. I had half suspected this as of late my spam folder hasn't really been getting anything. Seriously not cool, as I'm against deleting suspected spam outright. I've turned this off (for the whole 10 or so days I still have an Alphalink account), but it explains emails that I've never received.
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