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Skriven 2007-10-25 22:42:00 av ROBERT FOWLER (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av SEAN DENNIS
Ärende: Comcast messing with band
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-=> SEAN DENNIS wrote to ROBERT FOWLER <=-

 RF>  Most basic user plans also expressly prohibit web hosting, and
 RF> that  could be construed to be quite a number of things that
 RF> involve high  volume/large data uploads, including file sharing via
 RF> IM or BitTorrent.  If you need that bandwidth, you need a different
 RF> plan.

 SD> I've run my BBS, web server and FTP server for seven years now on
 SD> various broadband services and no one's said jack to me.  It's because
 SD> I'm low-bandwidth and fly under the radar. :)  I am going to moving my
 SD> domain from being commercially hosted over to my own box this weekend.
 SD> My boss is going to host my DNS and MX records at work and he's
 SD> redirecting port 25 for me to a high port so I can run my own mail
 SD> server.

 SD> Of course, I was on the biggest DSL plan I could get and when I moved,
 SD> AT&T neglected to tell me that they'd switched me to a lower-bandwidth
 SD> plan since I'd moved farther from the CO, so they still gave me my
 SD> static IP and haven't said anything in nearly a year about my servers
 SD> (in fact, I haven't even been portscanned by them once).

 SD> It's all in how you go about things, I guess.  I still don't agree with
 SD> any sort of interference with traffic though.  If you're going to screw
 SD> with someone, just shut off their service and tell them why, not play
 SD> mindgames.

 Ah, but then they lose revenue, as the customer goes to the competition.
 It's more lucrative to keep them on board, but stifle their efforts to
 exploit the resources.  It's all about the bottom line. :-)

 Regards,

 Robert Fowler





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