Port blockage is the reason why I put Charter in my dorm room when UNR
provides free Internet access.
The blocking of users who use routers, switches, hubs, bittorrent, etc.,
along with the amount of viruses and worms floating around on the
res-hall cesspool network are also reasons why I switched.
-Austin
Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
I know I usually rip on Charter when I post about rotten ISPs, but I
thought I'd give things a change of pace by ripping on ClearWire for a
while instead.
After my latest round of problems at Charter, I thought I'd give
ClearWire a try. It turns out that they're even worse: they block *all*
ports below 1025. When I spoke to customer disservice, it turns out that
they do this even with their "business" class of service. In other
words, your idea of business use of the Internet must be pretty much
confined to surfing the web to find ClearWire useful--and I use the word
"useful" advisedly.
I have to admit that their Orwellian insistence on saying "Yes, we
manage those ports for our customers" every time I used the word
"blocked" was an interesting use of new-speak, but not interesting
enough to use them as an ISP. I suppose they think that if they say
"managed" instead of "blocked" often enough, people will start to think
of it as a value-added service instead of a bowdlerization of the
Internet.
Anyway, I wanted to save some of my fellow Linux geeks the trouble I
went through. YMMV...but in this case, I rather doubt it.
--
Austin Stanhope www.cse.unr.edu/~stanhope
Robotics Research www.cse.unr.edu/~society
Computer Science and Engineering www.cse.unr.edu
University of Nevada, Reno www.unr.edu
Abuse it and you'll loose it. I WILL Procmail you.
Think before you click that forward button.
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