In my area it's just frustrating. I'm very lucky in that I've a choice a broadband providers: Comcast or RCN. However to get that choice they rewired the entire neighborhood with fiber tearing down all of the copper lines in the process.
This means that I can't, even tho' I'm sitting nearly on top of the local network center, get DSL (which is only available over copper). And right now DSL third-party companies (Speakeasy for example) are the only ones catering to the "home developer/home server" niche. I hope to see cable companies being to offer competitive plans, but there's just not much movement in that direction. All that said I actually really love Comcast. I've got great cable modem service (which, in actual fact, does let me run servers - just not "legally"), really great TV service, HDTV and PVR. I just wish they'd offer a webmaster account. ;^) Jim Davis -----Original Message----- From: Won Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 2:16 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Adelphia = Rip Off Jim Davis wrote: > This really isn't the case however. > > First off upload speeds are far, far slower than download speeds on all > residential cable services: so servers (which depend more on upload speeds > since requests consume very little download bandwith) simply can't use as > much bandwidth. > > Secondly residential server applications will never outweigh the traffic > being consumed by broadband consumer applications. Peer-to-peer, especially > (which really is a server) consumes a huge amount of bandwidth compared to > any traffic that a personal website or email server could realistically get. > > Applications like video conferencing, video email, streaming video and radio > and so forth are all enormous bandwidth hogs. > > I just don't see blocking servers as an effective measure against abuse. > Bandwidth abuse is still bandwidth abuse whether you're running an > overloaded game server, serving up full-length movies via Kaaza, or > broadcasting high-quality video from your webcam. > > I do agree that security is a reasonable argument, but the simple fact is > that most people that would be running servers are really no more or less > secure that the average user. > > (PS: can you tell that I'm a little miffed that I can run my websire from > home? ;^) ) > > Jim Davis Several people have made good points. I am all for consumer rights. If closing certain ports is a real problem or getting a static IP is a necessity, there are options. Granted the consumer shouldn't have to go through the hassle because the company changed their service etc. I'm divided. -- 2004 - The year $184M couldn't buy a pennant. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:135756 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
