I contacted @Home this afternoon--I had been scheduled for installation this week. Needless to say, I cancelled my order.
Bottom line is that they DO intend to implement a policy of banning VPN traffic over their network for @Home subscribers. How they intend to enforce such a policy effectively is open to speculation.
I was given a few explanations as to why they intend to ban VPN. The first was that they "don't support networks." Funny, eh? Second was that it requires too much bandwidth. Finally, the "@Home network is intended for business use." I.e., they clearly want people to pay-up for the "@Work" service in order to do VPN from home.
Michael Doleman
P.S.--When I first called today and mentioned VPN, the rep. declared that "we've been getting slammed with calls like this..." I suspect that if people keep the pressure on them, we'll see a rapid retreat from the policy.
