Hi What the guy was telling me was that they don't want customers who care if there's a connection or not. Since I do care, I won't be a Century Tel. customer much longer. I would have switched on the spot, but reprograming the routers takes a bit of time. Cisco IOS isn't my favorite thing to code in....
Bob On Sep 2, 2010, at 2:33 AM, Attila Kinali <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 12:36:22 -0400 > "Bob Camp" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I had an "interesting" conversation with an advanced tech support supervisor >> at Century Link / Embarq. According to this gentleman, their lines are only >> guaranteed to pass port 80 traffic (HTTP). Anything other than that is "not >> covered by the service agreement". The only thing they will guarantee you >> can get to is their web site. Past that, if it's broke they have no >> responsibility what so ever for fixing it. That's not referring to port or >> traffic blocking. They all swear they don't and would never do that. > > If i had an ISP Tech telling me that they cannot guarranty that > any IP traffic is going trough them correctly, i would imediatly > switch to an other. > > What this guy was basically telling you is that they are traffic > shaping, probably with some transparent proxy inbetween and are > too cheap to tell you about it. > > > Attila Kinali > -- > Why does it take years to find the answers to > the questions one should have asked long ago? > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
