On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 02:35:03PM -0500, Bill McGonigle wrote: > But I digress - if you cannot run any type of server, they're banning > FTP, X, SIP, all P2P apps, NTP, Instant Messengers, video conferencing > - need we go on? Who would want to buy that?
It's not much of an option. Almost every ISP out there has those kind of limits: Comcast, Verizon DSL, etc. The two options that I've heard of that don't have this limitation are: * Speakeasy * MV Communications. So, it doesn't really matter who would *want* to buy that - 90% of consumers buy it, whether they want to or not. Some of them knowingly buy it, aware they won't need those features. Some of them buy it, then ignore or avoid the restrictions. But almost no one pays the extra (Speakeasy comes at a premium over Verizon DSL, at least down in Cambridge) to be able to run servers unless they're a higher end user or like to support The Cause. (I choose to run an open Wireless network, something which only Speakeasy's ToS allows me to do.) -- Christopher Schmidt Web Developer _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
