After perusing the ToS, it looks like I need to concern myself with
the following bullet points:
# use or run dedicated, stand-alone equipment or servers from the
Premises that provide network content or any other services to anyone
outside of your Premises local area network ("Premises LAN"), also
commonly referred to as public services or servers. Examples of
prohibited equipment and servers include, but are not limited to,
e-mail, Web hosting, file sharing, and proxy services and servers;
So it looks like SSH is out. I'll consider setting up a polling
version instead.
# use or run programs from the Premises that provide network content
or any other services to anyone outside of your Premises LAN, except
for personal and non-commercial residential use;
Fortunately this is non-commercial use, so I think that this should be fine.
# restrict, inhibit, or otherwise interfere with the ability of any
other person, regardless of intent, purpose or knowledge, to use or
enjoy the Service, including, without limitation, posting or
transmitting any information or software which contains a worm, virus,
or other harmful feature, or generating levels of traffic sufficient
to impede others' ability to use, send, or retrieve information;
This is so vague that I'm worried that I won't be able to get around
this one with the technique I'm planning on using. Essentially, my
goal is to inject a little bit of traffic into a certain queue, enough
to detect that a subsequent packet is using the same queue (but, if I
do it correctly, not enough to be noticeable to a user). Technically
this would impede traffic, but it would be far, far less than if you,
say, watched a YouTube video. I'll talk to my advisor about this to
see what I should do.
# resell the Service or otherwise make available to anyone outside the
Premises the ability to use the Service (for example, though wi-fi or
other methods of networking), in whole or in part, directly or
indirectly. The Service is for personal and non-commercial residential
use only and you agree not to use the Service for operation as an
Internet service provider or for any business enterprise or purpose
(whether or not for profit);
Unfortunately, I'm not totally clear on the meaning of this, but I
don't think I'd be violating this.
Summary:
I'll come up with a way to do this that doesn't use SSH and I'll talk
to my advisor about whether the amount traffic will be a problem
according to the ToS (and maybe we'll contact Comcast about it). I'll
probably start another thread on the list next week after I've
addressed these problems. Thanks for all of your advice, and I hope
some of you will be willing to help when I'm a little more prepared to
get going with this. :)
