Well, I got a quick response from ACMA and they say that Australia doesn’t regulate channel usage and European channels align with Australian channels, so Telstra isn’t really doing anything wrong.
For 802.11 b/g/n, there are 13 usable 22 MHz channels spaced 5MHz apart in the allocated 2.4 GHz band (with adjacent channel overlap).
Some countries [...]

I have been to two new customers in the last week who have Telstra Bigpond Thomson TG782T Modem Router Wireless Network devices for ADSL2+ and wireless Internet access. These have been a PITA to configure because of a confusing web interface.
The first customer had tried on numerous occasions, including talking with the Bigpond “Helpdesk”, but [...]

A musician in Germany sued an Internet user after his home network was used to download music illegally. When he successfully proved that he had been on holiday at the time the court in Karlsruhe fined him $164 because there was no security password on his wireless access point.
“Private users are obligated to check whether [...]

Who would be the best people to deploy, support and manage a Windows 7 based global network? Well Microsoft obviously can’t manage their own products because they’ve just contracted Ifosys to manage theirs – Infosys lands deal to manage Microsoft’s internal IT services.
Infosys will provide Microsoft with IT help desk, desk-side services, and infrastructure and [...]

As reported on smh.com.au and theinquirer.net yesterday, Integral Energy had a major problem with it’s IT control network. A virus (W32.Virut.CF) infected the Windows based computers used by operators controlling the power grid. They were saved when some quick thinking techs replaced the Windows PCs with Linux PCs that were being used for development and [...]

There have been a couple of interesting blog posts at Computerworld after the huge attack on Twitter and Facebook last week. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols proposed that Windows PCs that don’t have up to date patches and security software should be locked out of the Internet. It has caused a huge uproar with many people abusing [...]

The past few days have been been a bit like deja vu, a few long standing customers and one new customer started complaining that Windows was slow and even freezing on occassions. Checking each of these systems and all but one only had 512 MB RAM but had been upgraded automatically to Windows XP SP3, [...]

During the week I picked up a customers computer which was having problems with Outlook Express and CA Anti-Spam. They had installed AVG Free as well as CA Internet Security which could be causing conflicts. After removing AVG I tracked down the problem but after all updates and patches had been applied the bug still [...]

Well, after enjoying Australia Day on Monday dragging my daughters and friends around Ben Chifley Dam behind my speedboat (the only downer was hitting something submerged at high speed and doing some serious damage to the propellor) I returned to work at Bathurst TAFE.
I spent the first day updating my proxy, Mac OS X and [...]

One of the other teachers has Ubuntu installed in a dual boot mode with Windows Vista on  the same model laptop as me, the Asus G1S, and he is also extremely happy with the laptop. However, he needs a wireless broadband connection and unfortunately the only real option he had was Telstra Hooking [...]