Thou shalt not question Comcast

Dan Ritter dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org
Wed Nov 26 08:15:14 EST 2008


On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 07:35:22AM -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> I would think that a business service would be useless if you could not 
> run servers, but I do know that Comcast, ATTBI, MediaOne and Highway1 
> all had a clause in the signed agreement that states that servers are 
> not allowed. The intent back in the Mediaone days was not to prevent you 
> from having an ssh server, but to prevent gaming and things like IRC.

RCN will charge a residential customer $20/month extra for a
static address -- and the right to run servers that do not
consume (badly defined) excessive bandwidth.

-dsr-


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