Re: Bandwidth Throttling

    When I was using GCI in Alaska a few years back I used to run my own
server and they didn't block anything then. I didn't even know they were
blocking ports at all on any ISP's until I tried to set my e-mail server up
down here in Michigan. It costs a lot of money to set up workarounds too.
Seems unfair to limit what we do with our internet service so much but what
can you really do about it? Even if you could take it to court (unlikely
because their contracts and user agreements are probably pretty solid) it
would just get dragged out over a few years.

Can they even block you from running a webserver? I know they can block
e-mail simnply by blocking the ports for that, but if you block a webservers
ports you wouldn't be able to view any webpages. Unless they have more
complex filters that actually look for incoming requests and outgoing
requests. Seems like it would be an expensive thing to implement.

    Brian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kurt Mathews" <skidriprekah@gmail.com>
To: <aklug@aklug.org>
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 9:28 PM
Subject: Re: Bandwidth Throttling

> Is that legal? Should we be taking ISPs to court for this? It doesn't
sounds
> very legal to me....
> On 1/5/07, Luke D <jules.inu@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I pay for there highest home service and I have not had any of my ports
> > blocked. I run my own test web server and DNS and other projects. I
heard
> > GCI did that thought. I wish some one would do a side by side
comparison,
> > I
> > would love to know who is the best.
> > On 1/5/07, Jim Gribbin <jimgribbin@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > It didn't occur to me at the time that the ISPs might be throttling,
but
> > > I suspect GCI is doing that with bittorrent also. I downloaded the
> > > latest OpenOffice the other day and it didn't seem like it was going
> > > that much faster than dial-up. They were probably throttling too.
> > >
> > > I also find port blocking a little annoying. They apparently do it do
> > > keep people from running servers without paying for the higher level
> > > service. It's my understanding that if you pay for the commercial
> > > version of the DSL, those ports aren't blocked. At least fewer of them
> > > are.
> > >
> > > Jim
> > >
> > > Luke D wrote:
> > > > I am hoping that some one can help me on the AKLUG list.
> > > > I called and talk to ACS and they told me they throttling Bittorrent
> > > > bandwidth. I know that it is used a lot of illegal file sharing such
> > as
> > > > music, movies, games etc. But I use it to get my Linux distros. Also
> > > World
> > > > of Warcraft uses Bittorrent protocol to download updates. Does GCI
do
> > > the
> > > > same thing? I am really considering dropping ACS if GCI does not do
> > > this.
> > > > The only problem I might have with GCI is there bandwidth caps.
> > > >
> > > > Also I am wondering how many people think that they should not
> > > throttling
> > > > bandwidth and block ports?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Luke
> > > >
> > > >
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