Re: How Sticky Are CableModem AUPs?

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Make sure they are not blocking ALL incoming ports.
Comcast is now blocking incoming traffic on ALL
65,536 ports. I was running a small server and
doing my own online talk show, but have discovered
all ALL incoming ports have been blocked. Now I
gotta spend extra money to get on something like
Live365.


"phaeton" <blahbleh666@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have Charter Cablemodem access. Like most any broadband provider
they mention 'no webservers, no ftp servers, no gameservers" etc. Just
*how* closely do they watch this?

I realize I'm the one breaking the rules and taking the risks, but I
would like to set up a small webserver at home. It will be very very
low bandwidth- mostly just to host small images like avatars and stuff
for a few forums I frequent. I will also like to have ftpd running on
it for the infrequent times of moving small files around (less than
2mb, in most cases). I understand the usual ports are blocked and I
know how to get around that.


I know it's against the rules, but has anyone ever done this
themselves? Ever get 'busted', and if so, what did they do? I have a
feeling that as long as I don't rock the boat too hard they either
won't notice or won't care as much.

But I could be wrong.

Thanks for any insight.

-phaeton



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