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Well, I have Bellsouth DSL, and they've capped their upstream to 256K. =
Their downstream is 1 megabit, however. They don't care how many =
servers you run; in fact, they'll help you set up your home network.
By and large, I've been pretty pleased with their service.
-D
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From: Chopin Cusachs=20
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 3:43 PM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] COX lawsuit
Punishing a corporation by a lawsuit is an illusion. Some lawyers
get a windfall, and rates go up for customers to pay for the =
judgement.
Guess you could fine all employees a week's pay -- that might be
a suitable punishment for bad decisions.
Seems sensible to me to charge more for the additional bandwith use
if someone wants to run a server.
Of course there is always DSL if you live in town.
The Roman Republic enacted the lex Cinicia in 204 B.C. which forbade
advocates charging for their services.
Choppy
At 03:08 PM 3/28/03 -0600, will hill wrote:
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>ports, forbade servers, crimped upload speeds and spent money on DHCP =
for=20
>a system that's got a 1:1 client to IP ratio. I doubt a lawsuit =
would=20
>hurt them as much as the marketplace will for such bad decisions.
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