On Thu, 17 Jun 2010, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
>> From: Jurvis LaSalle [mailto:[email protected]] >> >>> I've said before that I really like FiOS, partially because they >> don't do any shenanigans with my traffic, the way RCN or Comcast did >> when I used them. And here's an article supporting that claim. ;-) >>> >>> http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/06/verizon-comcast-p2p- >> blocking-was-wrong-we-wont-do-it.ars >> >> RCN did that too? I've caught them throttling me well below the tier I >> was being billed, but not shaping my traffic yet. > > Before anyone says "why do you whine when they stop providing you service > they said they wouldn't give you," I want to say this: isp's petition and > bid with towns and cities to service those areas, and often one or two isp's > have a monopoly on service for wherever you are. If they impose rules you > don't like, there's nothing you can do about it except move to a different > town. > > I don't know if RCN blocked p2p, but here were my experiences on RCN: > > I ran an ssh and http server at home. One day it stopped working. They > suddenly started filtering inbound standard ports ... So I moved to high > numbered ports ... And some months later, for the heck of it, I put it back. > Why the temporary change? I don't know. Can you be more specific? If they only blocked http ports, that might have been an attempt to stop a worm from propagating. I haven't heard about ssh port filtering. Personally, I have been able to find really good server rental service for $25, with unlimited bandwidth and really good uptime. There's just not a lot of disk space (only 160GB). I find this keeps me from worrying about filtering, crappy service, and power outages. Check http://www.serveraday.com for their occasional deals. I have other places offering similar service, such as http://www.wholesaleinternet.com, but I've been grandfathered in to lower cost tiers on older hardware. They may eventually come up with some cheap plans, again, too. > And my experience on Comcast: > > My business paid for business-class cable service, with static IP's. For > some reason, comcast filtered inbound port 22, and no matter how much I > called support or tried to get them to change it, they denied that they do > it. Shitty of them to do that, especially on a business class line. I had comcast and never had that problem. Comcast seems to vary a lot. > And my experience with Earthlink: > > One of my users has an Earthlink connection in NY city. He couldn't connect > to our company VPN. After about half an hour on the phone with him, we > figured out that his DNS server was resolving our domain name to the wrong > IP address. This intentional DNS poisoning was done by Earthlink, but it's > also done by opendns. (Just try this: nslookup google.com 156.154.70.1 ) > (Ultradns says google.com is 92.242.144.2 which is really one of their own > servers, they use to relay your queries to google, and they *claim* they > don't capture or use that information for anything.) pretty sneaky! I've always run my own authoritative dns for this, among other, reasons. > I also had a user with Verizon DSL at home, who had problems years ago with > outbound connections to port 25 ... Before 465 or 587 became standard, that > was a problem. But I haven't heard of anything like that on verizon since. Well, port 25 is a problem because of spam. I can see such filtering as being reasonable. _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
