Blocking port 25

[Jerry Feldman]

On Monday 25 July 2005 12:35 pm, Mike Gorse wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote:
> > At Totten Pond Road in Waltham, it's open.
> > At College Farm Road in Waltham, it's blocked.
>
> Okay - I'm on River Street (between Elm and Newton streets)
Why would Comcast, or more generally, any ISP block ports at such a small 
number of neighborhoods rather than the whole community. 

Most of the cable infrastructure is on a per-community basis (eg. city or 
town). 

I do remember that in the early days of Media One (Actually I think that 
Waltham was part of Continental Cable Visions system that was once 
Highway1, but I think that Continental Cable was not the original cable TV 
company in Waltham. But, I remember that people in Waltham really had a lot 
of trouble with the cable modem service in Waltham. While my service in 
Newton was always reasonably stable, I remember all the complaints on the 
news groups from Waltham. 

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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