We had comcast business and didn't have any problems with it in the St Louis Park area. Just a small business with an exchange server so no huge amounts of traffic. Jason On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Marc Skinner <marc at e-skinner.net> wrote: > well, they just did it to me! they are now blocking port 25! i called > and complained and they say - that they saw 5,000 emails or more come > from my cable modem on a single day. so they are preventing that port > now - and will not fix it. > > i know my system isn't sending that - i have no windows boxes, and the > majority of my traffic is sent via a VPN. i did however download about > 500gb of corp data to my fileserver ( i work for red hat - need to > synchronize all the software, etc) - and i'm sure that is what they > flagged me - a large amount of data over a short amount of time. i had > been happy with comcast but this is not cool. > > it also seems that they have reduced my upload speed from 4mb to 1.5mb > ... but i'll have to do some more testing to verify. > > might be time to increase my DSL circuit. i have always had a slow > 1.5mb DSL line as a backup, since my wife and i both work from home, and > both our jobs rely on internet connectivity, i felt it worth the extra > $20 a month for a slow backup line. it actually comes in handy about > 3-4 times a year, as my comcast line will go down for 1-3 days a couple > of times during the year ... usually due to the local neighbourhood > comcast visit that screws up something for the entire neighbourhood > until i call and complain - like this weekend! > > might also have to look at the business comacast offering - faster and > supposedly no limits or restrictions. anybody have that? i live in > burnsville so any feed back regarding the comcast business offering > would be useful. > > thanks! > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- jason -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20090209/66dc73e9/attachment.htm