[GRLUG] Comcast and blocking port 25 delivery

[Greg Folkert]

On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 08:46 -0500, Joe Vanderstelt wrote:
> > My opinion:  I'm glad they're blocking it.  It's about time.
> 
>  Charter does the the same thing (I believe they block ever port under 1024)
> 
> I would agree that having the filter on by default is good, if there
> was a way to opt out of the filtering.
> 
> Also I think last time I checked the comcast terms of service said you
> could not run a server on the connection. When I asked them what they
> considered a server they really didn't give me and answer.

I'm *NOT* running a server. I cannot get anything delivered to my
machine, At home.

Comcast is also resetting my (numerous) SSH Sessions every once in a
while. They also are profiling my data stream, I am flagged as a "HEAVY"
user. Even though I have paid for "Comcast BLAST" I am getting singled
out as I was told I came close the limit.

I did *ZERO* non-work related traffic. This includes... E-Mail, Doc
sharing etc (through google apps), SSH Sessions, SCP transfers, VPN
connections and just plain browsing to out front end app.

And one DVD for my new computer to install a new Linux distro...

And daily updates and downloads for my iMac, my laptop (Debian), my
workstation (Debian) and my server (Debian).

They are ticking me off even more.
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