At 8/31/2010 01:51 PM, Robert Kim wrote: >WAIT... > >Is it even legal to block IP addresses??? >If it is.. why dont you just block the whole domain alias???
Thankfully, there is no "net neutrality" rule preventing this. ISPs always block IP addresses. Spammers' address blocks, and ISPs who tolerate spammers, and ISPs who tolerate ISPs who tolerate spammers, are routinely blocked. As others might be. Shoot first, ask questions later -- this is the Mutually Assured Destruction rule that keeps the Internet from collapsing. And which the neuts have no klew about. This is one reason why ISPs are not common carriers. Providing "information service" (legal term in the US) means that you are not carrying stuff blindly, though you don't have full editorial control. So yes, a web-browsing and email only service is perfectly legal. Verizon Wireless sells just such a plan, in fact; it's basically mandatory with Blackberries. "Full" (but not quite neutral) Internet access, as used with Droids, costs more. >On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Paul Gerstenberger <pa...@hrec.coop> wrote: > > Our TOS is written in such that we can regulate them if they are > interfering with other customers. Our problem isn't upstream > bandwidth, but the wireless network (in places). We need to use > Trango 900s in places, hard to educate people that their using > netflix ruins the internet for X number of other customers on that > AP... when many other customers on the network can use netfix with no > problems. > > > > We do not have an enforced overage policy, but with the increased > accounting with our PPPoE changeover, we will be able to enforce > soon. I'm not looking forward to those phone calls, but it must be done... > > > > -Paul > > > > On Aug 30, 2010, at 9:51 AM, David E. Smith wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:47, Kurt Fankhauser <k...@wavelinc.com> wrote: > >> Whats your thoughts on blocking limelight IP's just for the > customers that are abusing the service. > >> > >> > >> If you mean that they're abusing your service, you'll have to > clarify what that means - the customer pays for bits to be > delivered, and you're delivering them. If you sell an "unlimited" > service, them's the breaks. If you bill by usage, just send them > their next bill showing all the overages they incurred, and that > probably will be an effective deterrent all by itself. :) > >> > >> David Smith > >> MVN.net > >> -- Fred Goldstein k1io fgoldstein "at" ionary.com ionary Consulting http://www.ionary.com/ +1 617 795 2701 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
