Because of the way cable modem technology works with everybody on the
same circuit sharing a finite amount of bandwidth, hosting a busy site
(whether it's a web site, an ftp site or even a very busy news or mail
server) could seriously affect all users on the circuit. I have a friend
who had TCI cable modem service and he found that the bandwidth
available to him during peak hours was about the same as a dial up
modem. There was lots of bandwidth during off-peak hours. He switched to
US West DSL and is much happier. Ain't competition great. Now if I could
only get either at my location I'd be happy.
The Rosens wrote:
>
> "David C. Jenner" wrote:
>
> > ...
> > My ISP handles all DNS services for my domain.
> > ...
>
> Your lucky, my cable modem company/ISP doesn't want customers running sites
> from inside their domain (rcn.com). Actually, it appears that they want to
> sell their hosting service. As such, they don't offer DNS resolution as a
> service to those that want to run (even a small) site out of their homes.
>
> The other side of the coin, is that the cable modem they provide is a 1-way
> (i.e. analog phone uplink & cable downlink). Hence if I built a very popular
> web site, I would be serving up pages at 56k (at best!)
>
> Thanks, everyone, for the feedback (both the personal email and the posts to
> the group).
>
> ...steve...
>
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