[NCLUG] Cable @home questions (I'M F**KED)

J. Paul Reed preed at sigkill.com
Tue Oct 17 01:02:09 MDT 2000


On Tue, Oct 17 2000 at 12:44:10am -0600, Bill Thorson wrote:

> Cable sucks!

I agree... out here in San Luis, cable modem service is provided by
Charter and they just started blocking ports 21, 25 and 80 to all their
customers, including the business customers who are paying extra to so they
can run services on the end of their cable modem (it's against the AUP in
the "home" package). 

The only problem is, we found the techs and talked to them, and the reason
they did it was to reduce traffic on the cable trunks going to people's
modems (i.e. the shared 'ethernet-like' medium is getting full), and that
congestion hasn't gone down.

Now they think it's the game players, and they'll be next, I'm sure.

At least Charter doesn't portscan its customers like @Home does... yet.

Unfortunately, PacHell DSL isn't much better, since they've switched to
using PPPoE (does USWest do that?)
, and constantly rotating your IP address with DHCP ... of course, you can
run services on it, if you could get an IP to point them at... and the
general reliability of DSL down here blows chunkage. 

The only place I've seen really good DSL is the silicon valley... there are
enough people there with clue, that the DSL companies know the geeks won't
stand for port scanning/blocking crap, and there are enough DSL companies
to actually provide for competition, and so you can choose another company
if you don't like your DSL company's AUP.

I wish it were easier to move bandwidth around... the LUGs in this country
should start a movment to get bandwidth to geeks everywhere... the slogin
could be "bandwidth that doesn't suck." ;-)

Later,
Paul
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