Internode and Westnet are no longer taking new internet and mobile customers as part of an eventual shutdown enacted by TPG.

Internode used to be a high quality home internet brand.

My understanding is that loyalty is never rewarded for competitive subscription services (gas, eletricity, water, internet, insurance, etc).

I wonder how long until AussieBB enshitifies?

  • legios@aussie.zoneEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    Been with Internode for over 20 years, not looking forward to changing provider…

    • WaterWaiver@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      Just for internet, or something more complicated? Also it looks like they’re nuking their email service if you’re using that.

      • Dave.@aussie.zone
        3·
        10 months ago

        Also it looks like they’re nuking their email service if you’re using that

        Their mail service has been garbage for 6 months or more now. I have a large IMAP account with them and mail is usually delayed anywhere from one to ten hours. I typically get batch delivery of the previous day’s worth of email around midnight to 2am.

        So that’s super fun for all those password reset and account signup emails that expire in 60 minutes…

        Finally got fed up with it at the end of November. I built my own mail server with my own domain and for the next few months I’ll be slowly migrating my 20 years of signups using my internode email to my new account.

        • WaterWaiver@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          I’ve been using a shared hosting provider for my email. I’d love to hear how your self host goes. I know there are some loud opinions on the web about how hosting your own email is hard, but also some quieter ones that say it’s working fine for them and isn’t any harder than deploying something like MailInABox.

          • legios@aussie.zoneEnglish
            2·
            9 months ago

            I’ve been self-hosting email for 10+years. I can confirm it’s a pain in the arse… Harder from a dynamic IP too (since you basically can’t get any reputation, or you might get an IP that’s banned for ‘x’ reasons)

            Postfix + Dovecot here

            Edit: Didn’t really give you an opinion. It’s doable if you have the time and patience. I work in IT too so I’m pretty good at troubleshooting etc. but sometimes it’s a LOT of time fiddling and debugging.

          • Dave.@aussie.zone
            1·
            9 months ago

            As mentioned below, have a look at Linuxbabe’s guide and see what you think. It was basically set up and forget (so far).

            The server I get through linode has a relatively small amount of storage. So I repartitioned the available storage of the default install and created a separate ZFS filesystem with compression enabled to hold the mailboxes. It’s compressing at about 65% of original size and even with 20 years of IMAP mail in there there’s heaps of room left.

            And holy shit it is so much faster than Internode’s server. I’ve enabled forwarding on their server so everything gets dumped to my new account, and just opening and browsing the folders/mail is so much faster now, both on my phone with the Gmail app and using thunderbird on the desktop.

        • Taleya@aussie.zone
          1·
          9 months ago

          Yeah i’m 90% done in that process with my ihug acct. It’s not fun.

          Make sure you set gmail or similar secondary backup with your domain registrar

      • legios@aussie.zoneEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        I have a power plan with static IP (host my own servers) etc.

        Will be interesting to see if that gets brought across. If not it looks like Aussie BB can cover those requirements if needed.

        • WaterWaiver@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          I’m on a semi-static IP. It has never changed (3 years now) but might theoretically. An actual static ip is an extra $5/mon addon last I checked.

          When I signed up I was on CGNAT (default for all new customers). I called them, explained why this didn’t work for me and they changed me to a proper IPV4 address without any hassle.