Re: Bandwidth Throttling

Brian ThunderEagle wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
Erm, not quite. Its' not that kind of blocking. To prevent users from
running a webserver, they block *incoming* port 80. Outgoing port 80 is
still open. And besides; when your browser calls up a web page, your
computer and the server will agree on a higher port to communicate on.

Blocking outgoing SMTP (Except through the ISP's own mailservers) just
makes sense; otherwise sysadmins are spending half their day dealing
with customers with trojaned and virus-infected machines (even forcing
users to use the ISP's mailserver doesn't fix that. The viruses and
trojans will use Outlook's configured SMTP server to crank out spam.)

What ISP Are you on in Michigan? I know Comcast isn't blocking any
ports down there....

Adam
> 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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