Connectivity woes in Boston

[dmorin at morinfamily.com (Duane Morin)]

I think their primary concern re: servers is traffic generated by
commercial ventures (and them wanting to charge you an extra arm and a
leg).  if you're still going to receive the same volume of mail, and it's
just that you're going to direct it straight to your box instead of
through theirs, I bet they never even notice.  I suspect there's lots and
lots of AT&T customers who are banking on that.

After all, what constitutes a "server" if you really want to get
technical?  I want to connect to my home machine from work, so I run an
ssh daemon.  Am I now an ssh server?  I'm the only client, so it's not
like I've got a dozen people sharing the line or something.  If I'm
running Apache primarily because httpd starts up by default, am I a web
server that should get taken down by them?

 Duane

 On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, John J
Boland wrote:

> oh, woe is me!
>
> tiac.net/inter.net is changing over to new access numbers and i no longer get
> my static address, which was part of my premium service, i get a dynamic
> address now.  i haven't been all that happy with the service over the last
> several months (slowww downloads, several retries to connect).
>
> so, i've been looking at high-speed internet access options in the city
> of Boston: DSL and cable modems.
> Unfortunately, i'm 500 feet too far from my CO for DSL.
> Cablevision of Boston had struck up a deal with @home for cable-based
> internet service.  Since at&t took over, they haven't changed the deal with
> @home and that appears to be the only service i can get. the aup from @home
> is very restrictive, no servers of any kind.  the one guy i managed to find in
> customer service, who knew anything about anything, gave me the impression
> that they monitored connections/usage and would terminate the account of
> any suspected servers and that @home was geared more towards basic web surfing
> and their email service. so, i wouldn't be able to set up my own mail or web
> server.
>
> so, i guess i've got two questions:
> 1) are there any other high-speed options available in the city of Boston?
> 2) should i just ignore the aup and setup my own servers?
>
> tia...
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