On Monday 23 June 2003 10:33, Christian Friedl wrote: > What I don't get is, why don't ISPs exploit the fact to make profit? Why > not sell different customized accounts, one for "dummy and his grandma", > with everything closed except 80, 25, 110; and one for ye olde nerde, with > a customizable firewall hosted at the ISP?
Some do. My ISP has two vlans on the cable modem system. One with no peer-to-peer traffic at all, and the other has no filtering. You have to ask to be on the non-filtered vlan. It cost them nothing to offer the no-peer-to-peer (and in fact saves them tons of tech support time) so they charge nothing more for this. Non-peer-to-peer can send/recieve traffic to/from the non-filtered vlan, so local web sites can be reached. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
