Again....
These schemes might be effective, temporarily, but playing cat and mouse
with ports and the ISPs' attempts to dick with traffic is not a
practical business model.
Playing cat and mouse is standard practice in the VoIP world...
unfortunately the telcos and isps which play fair and the exception
rather than the rule.
Honestly, this behavior on the part of the ISP's doesn't surprise me in
the least. Conside those cases where the ISP is also selling dialtone.
VOIP traffic crossing their network, and NOT belonging to them, is
competition. Given that the major communications companies have a
history of aggressively protecting their revenues, and given that the
current regulatory climate has been bought and paid for by those
companies, it doesn't surprise me at all.
I agree with you. They are big, they have lots of capital, and they
don't like the idea of competition. So you need to play smart... there
is really no choice.
<tin_foil_hat=on>
This is but an early skirmish in the war for the Internet, folks.
Video-on-demand may well be the next round. That "holy grail" of the
media giants is just around the corner, and don't think for a minute
that your cable company/ISP will stand idly by and watch you order your
movies from "moviesnow.blockbuster.com" if they can get away with
dicking with the feed and offering you "a more reliable" alternative.
<tin_foil_hat=off>
The problem is that it's a sad truth. The internet which was originally
a cool P2P environment is increasingly turning into a pure client -
server (or rather consumer - big business) model. To me this is a huge
step backwards. Compuserve anyone?
Businesses love to lock their customers in, and this is exactly what's
happening. And until people understand the value of a clean connection,
with no NAT and a static IP address, this is not going to get any better...
Cheers,
Jean-Michel.
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