[Coco] The online Telenet CoCo BBS now has a domain name!

[John E. Malmberg]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 29 November 2003 10:30, John E. Malmberg wrote:
> 
>>If my ISP permitted it, I would allow telnet access to my system
>>here. There is no threat to my system security by doing that.
>> 
> I'm on verizon, DSL, and AFAIK the only port they block is port 80, 
> because you aren't supposed to be operating a web server from your 
> home machine, but enough uplink bandwidth, whatever. So most run 
> their apache listening to 8080. :)

http://www.verizon.net/policies/vzcom/tos_popup.asp
Section 3.6 E - No servers.

You have the same situation as I do.

Adelphia does not block the ports, they just disconnect you if they 
discover a server operating either through complaints or from their own 
port scans.

To get reconnected, you have to pay the full installation fee again.

It appears that many ISPs prefer to have overly restrictive terms of 
service instead of competent technicians.

Charter, comcast, and roadrunner all prohibit servers on their 
residential rate connections.

While some ISPs will allow you to pay a higher rate for a service that 
allows your own servers, Adelphia is not one of them.

I have no other broadband internet options here, so if I get kicked off 
of Adelphia, the only thing left is dialup.

-John
wb8tyw at qsl.net
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