[PLUG] Comcast: Static IP

[Roman Robinson]

My bandwidth is high, with out servers..In the last month, my personal
computer has done 49GB down, and 14GB up. Given, a little bit of that is
inside the network, but most is outside. This month, I think it will be a
lot lower as I have stoped using p2p (The 14GB up is NOT from p2p - I never
shared), but still I use a lot of traffic between my computers and my
friends...

I am looking into a higher-speed (higher-pay..) Comcast package that will
allow servers, because I would like to be allowed to do what I do now but do
more of it (instead of hosting a small site with nothing useful on it,
hosting a useful server with games or something), and then I could make one
of my test servers a production server :)

--Roman

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Lankow" <paul at lankow.net>
To: <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 11:32 AM
Subject: RE: [PLUG] Comcast: Static IP


>
> >> Jeme A Brelin wrote:
> >> Gadzooks! Why would ANYONE willfully endure a commercial
> >> organization's
> >> such blatant contempt for their customers?  And why would
> >> anyone willfully
> >> contribute to this heinous and egregious subversion of the
> >> entire design of the internet?
>
> You also need to keep in mind that this service is marketed as for
> entertainment use in the home. Sadly, the rules are required to protect
> the masses. It is no different than a lifeguard at a pool. If you're by
> yourself, horseplay is your business. If you're in a crowd, it's
> everybody's business. If you want to run servers and have a static IP,
> I'm sure they have a product (a bigger pool) to accommodate that, at an
> appropriate price. @Home had a corresponding @Work service. I suspect
> Comcast has something similar.
>
> I have been very happy with the service I get considering the price I
> pay. I run servers for personal use only, which I believe is in the
> spirit of their rules. Since my bandwidth usage is in-line with a home
> entertainment system, they've never asked me to shut them down.
>
> Regards,
> Paul
>
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