Re: Comcast throws down gauntlet to residential accounts

2009-08-11 Thread Andrew Lewman
I'm killing this thread. Originally, I figured someone else will or already has run into the same situation as Scott. And said someone may have advice on how to work with the ISP. However, the thread has devolved. It's dead. Move on. Thanks. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B

Re: Comcast throws down gauntlet to residential accounts

2009-08-11 Thread Jon Cosby
On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 12:38 +0200, Niels Elgaard Larsen wrote: > Scott Bennett wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:10:41 -0400 Ted Smith > > wrote: > > >> You're conveniently ignoring countries like Sweden, Iceland, Estonia, > >> where "socialist" Internet policies have resulted in some of the

Re: Comcast throws down gauntlet to residential accounts

2009-08-11 Thread Ted Smith
On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 12:38 +0200, Niels Elgaard Larsen wrote: > Scott Bennett wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:10:41 -0400 Ted Smith > > wrote: > > >> You're conveniently ignoring countries like Sweden, Iceland, Estonia, > >> where "socialist" Internet policies have resulted in some of the

Re: Comcast throws down gauntlet to residential accounts

2009-08-11 Thread Ted Smith
I'm on the list, Scott, you don't need send the message twice. On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 01:43 -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: > On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:10:41 -0400 Ted Smith > wrote: > >On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 23:55 -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: > >> On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:33:10 -0400 Ted Smith > >> wrote:

Re: Comcast throws down gauntlet to residential accounts

2009-08-11 Thread Niels Elgaard Larsen
Scott Bennett wrote: > On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:10:41 -0400 Ted Smith > wrote: >> You're conveniently ignoring countries like Sweden, Iceland, Estonia, >> where "socialist" Internet policies have resulted in some of the best >> environments of digital freedom. In fact, your list appears only t

Re: Comcast throws down gauntlet to residential accounts

2009-08-11 Thread Barton F Bruce
*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(r) Pro* Last fall I sat through the whole day public FCC hearing on Comcast's outrageous behavior to P2P traffic (and presumably other traffic, too, but that was the biggie) held at Harvard Law School. Things started LATE beca

Re: Comcast throws down gauntlet to residential accounts

2009-08-11 Thread grarpamp
> How would slower speeds avoid Comcast's port scans? Wouldn't. But since you said you saw them scanning you, fine... logon to a route server, look up the asn of that address and anything else comcast related, grab all their cidr blocks and sink the whole pile of them on your packet filter. T

Re: Comcast throws down gauntlet to residential accounts

2009-08-10 Thread Scott Bennett
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:10:41 -0400 Ted Smith wrote: >On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 23:55 -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: >> On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:33:10 -0400 Ted Smith >> wrote: >> >On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 12:28 -0700, Martin Fick wrote: >> >> If they couldn't do this, to stay competitive, they=3D20 >> >

Re: Comcast throws down gauntlet to residential accounts

2009-08-10 Thread Scott Bennett
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:54:22 +0300 "Robas, Teodor" wrote: >> As you can see proxies are specifically named; >> say bye to your Tor relay under Comcast residential contract. > >I would say it is still possible to run it, but at low speed ... you >know, fly below the radar. > How would s

Re: Comcast throws down gauntlet to residential accounts

2009-08-10 Thread Scott Bennett
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:48:10 -0400 Ted Smith wrote: >To: or-talk@freehaven.net >Cc: or-t...@seul.org Ted, please stop doing that. Only one copy of each message need be posted to the list. >On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 13:22 -0700, Martin Fick wrote: >> A right is something someone should not be a

Re: Comcast throws down gauntlet to residential accounts

2009-08-10 Thread Scott Bennett
Jon, Martin, et al.: please stop double-posting. There is only one or-talk mailing list, even though it has two addresses. On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:04:05 + Jon Cosby wrote: >On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 13:22 -0700, Martin Fick wrote: >> A right is something someone should not be able to >

Re: Comcast throws down gauntlet to residential accounts

2009-08-10 Thread Ted Smith
On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 23:55 -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: > On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:33:10 -0400 Ted Smith > wrote: > >On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 12:28 -0700, Martin Fick wrote: > >> If they couldn't do this, to stay competitive, they=20 > >> would charge more money for everyone and you would=20 > >> suffe

Re: Comcast throws down gauntlet to residential accounts

2009-08-10 Thread Scott Bennett
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:33:10 -0400 Ted Smith wrote: >On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 12:28 -0700, Martin Fick wrote: >> If they couldn't do this, to stay competitive, they=20 >> would charge more money for everyone and you would=20 >> suffer more. Cheap internet access and "serving" is=20 >> not some i

Re: Comcast throws down gauntlet to residential accounts

2009-08-10 Thread Robas, Teodor
As you can see proxies are specifically named; say bye to your Tor relay under Comcast residential contract. I would say it is still possible to run it, but at low speed ... you know, fly below the radar. -- _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML email X

Re: Comcast throws down gauntlet to residential accounts

2009-08-10 Thread Scott Bennett
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:09:23 -0400 Praedor Atrebates wrote: >On Monday 10 August 2009 02:55:13 pm Gregory Maxwell wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Scott Bennett wrote: >> [snip] >> >> > business-class service, but it seems unlikely to be any cheaper. >> > Verizon's residential serv

Re: Comcast throws down gauntlet to residential accounts

2009-08-10 Thread krishna e bera
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 01:39:44PM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: >[...] > to the cablemodem. I was told that having *any* ports "open facing the > Internet" was a violation of Comcast's Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) for > residential accounts. [...] This would be crippling if true - residential VOIP

Re: Comcast throws down gauntlet to residential accounts

2009-08-10 Thread Ted Smith
On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 13:22 -0700, Martin Fick wrote: > A right is something someone should not be able to > prevent you from doing, not something that should be > provided to you. I believe that "you have the right > to be a space tourist if you want to be", but, of > course, that does not imp

Re: Comcast throws down gauntlet to residential accounts

2009-08-10 Thread Martin Fick
--- On Mon, 8/10/09, Martin Fick wrote: > --- On Mon, 8/10/09, Scott Bennett wrote: > > >    Next, the conversation took a turn > > I was told that having *any* ports "open facing the > > Internet" was a violation of Comcast's Acceptable Use > > Policy (AUP) for residential accounts.  > > Seem

Re: Comcast throws down gauntlet to residential accounts

2009-08-10 Thread Jon Cosby
On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 13:22 -0700, Martin Fick wrote: > A right is something someone should not be able to > prevent you from doing, not something that should be > provided to you. I believe that "you have the right > to be a space tourist if you want to be", but, of > course, that does not imp

Re: Comcast throws down gauntlet to residential accounts

2009-08-10 Thread grarpamp
In the US, RoadRunner and WOW are <$50 for about 5+ megs down and maybe half a meg up. Lots of people I know run all sorts of 'servers', on their lines. Yes, these ISP's forbid 'servers' and 'proxies', etc in their AUP's. Though no one I know has ever been hit with the stick. They're all minimally

Re: Comcast throws down gauntlet to residential accounts

2009-08-10 Thread TorOp
Ted Smith wrote: On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 13:39 -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: Verizon residential service is only available at my location if I also buy their telephone service, the combination of which would cost ~ $80/mo. and also require a 12-month contract. I have yet to get the details on Veriz

Re: Comcast throws down gauntlet to residential accounts

2009-08-10 Thread Bill Weiss
Praedor Atrebates(prae...@yahoo.com)@Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 03:09:23PM -0400: > On Monday 10 August 2009 02:55:13 pm Gregory Maxwell wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Scott Bennett wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > business-class service, but it seems unlikely to be any cheaper. > > > Verizon's

Re: Comcast throws down gauntlet to residential accounts

2009-08-10 Thread Bill Weiss
Ted Smith(ted...@gmail.com)@Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 02:52:26PM -0400: > On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 13:39 -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: > > Verizon residential service is only available at my location if I also > > buy their telephone service, the combination of which would cost ~ > > $80/mo. and > > also req

Re: Comcast throws down gauntlet to residential accounts

2009-08-10 Thread Martin Fick
--- On Mon, 8/10/09, Ted Smith wrote: > > Martin Fick wrote: > > If they couldn't do this, to stay competitive, they > > would charge more money for everyone and you would > > suffer more. Cheap internet access and "serving" is > > not some inherent human right, so let's not complain > > about

Re: Comcast throws down gauntlet to residential accounts

2009-08-10 Thread Ted Smith
On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 12:28 -0700, Martin Fick wrote: > If they couldn't do this, to stay competitive, they > would charge more money for everyone and you would > suffer more. Cheap internet access and "serving" is > not some inherent human right, so let's not complain > about the price of gas

Re: Comcast throws down gauntlet to residential accounts

2009-08-10 Thread Martin Fick
--- On Mon, 8/10/09, Scott Bennett wrote: >    Next, the conversation took a turn > I was told that having *any* ports "open facing the > Internet" was a violation of Comcast's Acceptable Use > Policy (AUP) for residential accounts.  Seems like another good argument in favor of implementing a

Re: Comcast throws down gauntlet to residential accounts

2009-08-10 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Monday 10 August 2009 02:55:13 pm Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Scott Bennett wrote: > [snip] > > > business-class service, but it seems unlikely to be any cheaper. > > Verizon's residential service does not currently have a cap, but I don't > > know whether they pro

Re: Comcast throws down gauntlet to residential accounts

2009-08-10 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Scott Bennett wrote: [snip] > business-class service, but it seems unlikely to be any cheaper.  Verizon's > residential service does not currently have a cap, but I don't know whether > they prohibit listening on ports accessable from the Internet. VZN's residentia

Re: Comcast throws down gauntlet to residential accounts

2009-08-10 Thread Ted Smith
On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 13:39 -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: > Verizon residential service is only available at my location if I also > buy their telephone service, the combination of which would cost ~ > $80/mo. and > also require a 12-month contract. I have yet to get the details on > Verizon > busin

Comcast throws down gauntlet to residential accounts

2009-08-10 Thread Scott Bennett
I'm not spitting nails now, so I guess I've calmed down enough to post this message. Friday, while waiting for Comcast to get its act together to deal with registration problems involving the replacement cablemodem they brought here (still not resolved), I received the monthly call from their