> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-nanog@;merit.edu] On > Behalf Of Christopher Schulte > Sent: October 27, 2002 9:22 PM > To: William Warren; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: How to secure the Internet in three easy steps > > In a public press release dated August, they claim to have > 1.8 million Internet customers. How that compares to the > global pool of cable users, I cannot say.
One cable company I've done business here (Ontario, Canada) has over 500K subscribers, and I don't believe it has the largest number of cable modems in the country. So you're probably talking around 1.5-2 million cable modems north of the border. Then you have Europe (I think .nl has decent cable modem penetration), Asia-Pacific, etc. > It'll be interesting to see if att exports their filtering > policies to the newly acquired customers. They'll want to > support a uniform configuration across the whole network, I'm sure. They apparently don't have a uniform configuration now; we have lots of people using AT&T BI complaining about blocked port 80s and whatnot, and yet we have some other AT&T BI users in different locations (but I think both were formerly-@Home AT&T BI areas) who don't have any ports blocked. Bizarre, I have to say. Vivien -- Vivien M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assistant System Administrator Dynamic DNS Network Services http://www.dyndns.org/