Re: [Cooker] ssh

[Ron Stodden]

James Sutherland wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Ron Stodden wrote:

> > But I still think low volume access to these servers should be
> > permitted.
> 
> That's the policy my cable co runs, more or less: no "public" servers (no
> anon-FTP etc), but SSH, FTP (users only), password-protected WWW etc is
> fine. Seems reasonable, IMO.

Even so, cable bandwidth, while nice for the download, is capped at
16KB/sec on the upload (as per the DOCSIS spec.).  That means that,
even if permitted, what you can do as an ftp or web server is very
limited, because your server upload speed cap is 16KB/sec for the sum
of all outgoing traffic.  The upload speed per connection is what is
perceived as the download speed by the remote client.

Cable services also supply web pages - these do not suffer from this
up/download restriction and are the proper place to place ftp-able
files and web page files.   However these suffer from a capacity
limitation (10MB?).

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Regards,

Ron. [AU]