I ssh (using port 22) to machines connected via ClearWire. I haven't tried other ports. I hope this isn't a new thing.
- Anna On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 05:20:52PM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
