[TriLUG] OT: TIME WARNER ANNOUNCES INTRODUCTION OF PACKET SHAPING TECHNOLOGY NATIONWIDE

[William Sutton]

This wasn't even about self-hosted port 80.  This was me, at home, on my 
laptop, trying to reach something as simple as google.com or 
newsobserver.com.

-- 
William Sutton


On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 OlsonE at aosa.army.mil wrote:

> I had that convo with them today about hosting my webpage at home, and
> he told me: 
> 
> "You can host it at home, but in some areas we block port 80. If that's
> the case, you can host it on a different port".
> 
> I got the text transcript e-mailed to me from RR ...to keep as proof if
> they try to come after me!
> 
> Now that they've given me the thumbs up, time for some LAMP + MediaWiki!
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> Behalf Of Christopher L Merrill
> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 2:52 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OT: TIME WARNER ANNOUNCES INTRODUCTION OF PACKET
> SHAPING TECHNOLOGY NATIONWIDE
> 
> William Sutton wrote:
> > I've had Comcast in Alabama and Virginia for 3-4 years now.  I had TWC
> 
> > for
> > 3-4 years in NC.  On the whole TWC impressed me as more clueful and 
> > servicable.  Examples of Comcast's cluelessness:
> 
> Yeah, we really have it pretty good.  I've got friends all over the
> country whose stories make me appreciate TWC/RR.
> 
> Price is higher than I'd like, but I've had a nearly round-the-chock
> connection at my house for 7 years.  Any time I've reported a problem,
> they've been at my house promptly and fixed the problem first time. They
> don't block incoming ports, so I can run my own server.
> 
> I wish I could find a mechanic this good.
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
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