We haven't heard anything here in Alberta, where half of Edmonton and I
think all of Calgary is Shaw@Home. I've advised those people who use/plan
to use our VPN to watch out for this, but they haven't heard anything
either. I think it is probably an isolated isp trying to put the squeeze
on. What they will find, is exactly as everyone has mentioned. There is
competition now, and these cable companies just haven't figured out how to
deal with that yet and toss their monopoly attitude. I switched my home
and work connection to ADSL and my tv to satellite after a falling out at
work with the cable company last year. No regrets here...
The first edition of ADSL here actually didn't support VPNs because it was
behind a very strict firewall and used private addressing. That didn't
last long and the service is very open now.
.. Jason Badry
At 02:08 PM 8/15/00 -0400, you wrote:
>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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