Customers blast Comcast move to foil bandwidth hogs
By Corey Grice
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
August 16, 2000, 12:00 p.m. PT
Revisions made to a Comcast Online customer agreement document
have irked some high-speed cable-modem customers concerned about
a prohibition on the use of secure networking technology.
The document, which governs acceptable uses for the company's
cable-modem service Comcast@Home, was recently updated for the third
time. The new version, in section 6B, requires subscribers to agree not to
use
the service as a means to create what is known as a virtual private
network, or
VPN--a technology that provides a secure connection across the Internet...
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