Editorial
It has only been a couple of weeks since our last newsletter, but we felt another one was warranted as there is a lot for us to tell you about.

This is our first newsletter that both Western Australian and South Australian users will receive. Leigh Hart, the technical manager of iiNet in South Australia, recently visited the Western Australian office where we discussed a wide range of issues, working towards tightly integrating our WA and SA offices.

We've Moved!
As many will know, for over a year our Perth offices have been based at 105 St Georges Terrace - just across the road of the Bankwest Tower right in the centre of Perth. With the continued rapid growth, and the resulting growth of iiNet to keep pace, we have simply run out of room in this office.

As a result, our Perth office has moved to Level 9 of the QV.1 building - just up the road at 250 St Georges Terrace in Perth.

Our offices in 105 St Georges Terrace will remain as a centre for our Internet training and some technical services. These offices will trade under the name "Intuition" - a division of iiNet, but more about that later.

Our phone and fax numbers will remain unchanged, however please direct postal correspondence to

iiNet Technologies
250 St Georges Terrace
Perth WA 6000

The postal address for our Adelaide office will remain unchanged as:

iiNet Technologies
76 Waymouth Street
Adelaide SA 5000

Our Perth Rotaries
Many of you still have one of our 1995 rotaries, which closed several months ago, programmed into your software. The new owner of the "322-7331" number has pointed out to us they are receiving countless calls from peoples modems, which is quite frustrating for them, and no doubt for our clients that are calling it!

If you are dialing our Perth numbers, please keep in mind that the only rotary starting with 322 that is still functional is 322-5432, which is also being phased out over the next few months.

Our primary rotary number for Perth is 461-4000.

The iiNet Network
The South Australian network has been upgraded recently, with iiNet now maintaining a two megabit link to the Internet through connect.com.au. In addition to this bandwidth, 30 modems will be added to the system before Christmas.

If you are calling our South Australian nodes, you will note they now have LCP support, which means that when you connect you don't need to use a script or type in your log in details - it is all negotiated automatically with Windows 95!

New Services
While iiNet's core products have always been top quality Internet Access Services, as the Internet has become increasingly mainstream, we've seen a definite need for other professional Internet related services. As a result, several companies have been formed to offer comprehensive services that will compliment the access services iiNet provides.

Firstly, iiNet has teamed up with a leading Perth graphical design firm to create "iiCon", a new online publishing firm specialising in high end corporate presence on the Internet.

Some of iiCon's first projects have been the Gosnell's Amcal Chemist (http://www.gac.com.au/) and the Hopman Cup Tennis Tournament (http://hopmancup.iinet.net.au/)

As mentioned earlier, Intuition has also been formed to provide high quality Internet training in our well equipped facilities in Perth. Meanwhile, Internet Support Services continues to perform courses in our Adelaide offices.

In addition to these new companies, iiNet is also offering professional IT consulting services. The rates and areas of specialty are as follows:

Michael O'Reilly $120/hr remote, $180/hr onsite.

Network Design, Routers, USENet, Modems and other Comms devices, UNIX System Administration.

Michael Malone $120/hr remote, $180/hr onsite.

DNS, SMTP, UNIX System Administation.

Patrick D'Cruze $90/hr remote, $120/hr onsite.

X Configuration, UUCP, UNIX System Administration.

Kim Davies $90/hr remote, $120/hr onsite.

WWW, Perl, CGI, HTTP issues

Leigh Hart $120/hr remote, $120/hr onsite.

Network Design, Routers, Modems and Comms Devices

John Lindsay $120/hr remote, $120/hr onsite.

DNS, SMTP, UNIX system administration.

Western Australian State Election
For West Australians (and interested South Australians), the Western Australian Electoral Commission is publishing district profiles, lists of candidates, polling places and general information such as how to vote options on the web. A main attraction will be on election night, when the site will publish progressive results as they become available.

To get to the WAEC's web site, point your browser to:

http://www.waec.wa.gov.au/

Network Downtime
Due to work that needs to be conducted by Western Power, our point of presence in Perth will experience an outage at the following time:

1am to 5am
Sunday 15 December, 1996

Due to the extended nature of this outage, our backup power systems can not keep our services running for the entire duration. Services that will be affected include our Perth dialup and ISDN systems, as well as uplinks that terminate in Perth.

In Closing
Christmas and the new year are rapidly approaching, and as such all the staff at iiNet would sincerely like to wish all our clients a very Merry Christmas and a safe and Happy New Year. Our service will be running 24 hours a day as always over the seasonal break, however you may wish to note our slightly amended telephone support and office hours:

                      Perth                Adelaide
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      Tue Dec 24      9AM to 5PM           9AM to 7PM
      Wed Dec 25      CLOSED               CLOSED
      Thu Dec 26      midday to 5PM        CLOSED
      Fri Dec 27      8AM to 10PM          9AM to 7PM
      Sat Dec 28      9AM to 5PM           12PM to 5PM
      Sun Dec 29      9AM to 5PM           12PM to 5PM
      Mon Dec 30      8AM to 10PM          9AM to 7PM
      Tue Dec 31      9AM to 5PM           9AM to 7PM
      Wed Jan 01      1PM to 5PM           CLOSED