I am on @home here in Ontario, We are through Rogers Cable, which basically
is excite@home. They apparently don't have any plans as far as I can tell
to prohibit VPN access. I have yet to be able to speak with someone
regarding this. IF they decide to try and inforce this type of ban, how
hard would it be to change the ports that Securemote uses? I'm not about to
pay in excess of 200 dollars a month to have the ability to connect to the
VPN for a couple hours a week.
Quite odd. Maybe next they will ban napster, streaming video and http....
then their network will be real fast for the 30% of the customers that are
left....
We are giving them quite a bit of business in that some people would like to
have access to SAP from home. There really isn't that much bandwidth
consumed so they are still making quite a bit of money off of our 90 @home
accounts... If they decide to be stupid in our area, there are alot of
ISP's foaming at the mouth to offer us DSL services....
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Joseph Voisin, Systems Administrator, Engel Canada Inc.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Valerie Leveille [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 1:55 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [FW1] @Home ban of VPN's
>
>
>
> It's true. I called the corporate headquarters for Comcast@Home this
> morning. The person I talked to on the phone last night said
> that if they
> saw VPN traffic coming from me, that they would warn me a few
> times and
> then if I didn't comply, they would terminate my service.
> That's why I
> called the corporate headquarters. I saw nothing on the
> excite@home site
> about this change so I don't wonder if it's the local
> divisions making
> their own rules. (I'm in Detroit). Anyway the person from corporate
> headquarters promised (yeah right) to have someone in upper
> management
> contact me within 24 hours.
>
> I contact my local State Attorney General and they said that there's
> nothing they can do. The Better Business Bureau wants me to
> try and resolve
> it with Comcast before I resort to them.
>
> How many people are affected by this? If we cause enough
> grief will they
> take it out of their agreement. I can't believe that they
> aren't allowing
> people to protect their data. They fed me the line that if
> you're doing
> that it's a "business connection" and they're going to charge
> you more.
> ALOT MORE! Ameritech wants $100 a month for a static IP
> address and they
> don't currently prohibit VPN traffic (but that's doesn't mean
> that they
> won't pull a @Home fiasco in the future). Comcast@Home had a
> "business
> division" for cable modems. Do you want to know how much
> they're charging
> for basically the same service I have now (currently
> $36/month) except that
> I'm allowed to have VPN's --> $1295 installation and $225/month!
>
> This is ridiculous!
>
> Valerie
>
>
>
>
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