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. -- Unabashedly littering the information superhighway with detritus like this for over 15 years now. _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
