On Tue, 3 May 2005, Justin W. Pauler wrote: > Now, maybe I'm in the minority on this, but there are only two (major) > broadband players in Baton Rouge and I'm not jeopardizing my account > with my ISP, because I'm definitely not going to order a POTS line so > I can have DSL.
"Don't run a server" has ALWAYS been in ISP AUP's. I've never heard of anyone getting their ISP account terminated for running a small server to host the family album. Now if you're hosting porn or illegal content, that's different. Ports are blocked because of worms and virii, not to prevent servers. Your little server uses a lot less upstream bandwidth than p2p users that run 24/7. Also as an aside, you are THEIR customer. You shouldn't live in fear of "jeopardizing your account". They need to do everything they can to keep your business. You should demand great service and complain loudly when you don't get it. If they still don't want your business tell them "come get this damn cable modem and turn off the cable TV and BTW do you know the number for DirecTV and Bellsouth?" ray -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org Systems Engineer Southeastern Louisiana University IBM Certified Specialist AIX Administration, AIX Support =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
