Circling back to the topic of what is or is not allowed with your FIOS connection, and running your own basement datacenter... before you get too excited repeat after me: "I will read the Service Level Agreement and Terms of Service". What you will likely find is that consumer-broadband is usually burdened by ToS that does not allow you to have anything other than port 22 open. EVEN with a static address. And there is a good chance they WILL port-scan you, and they reserve the right to port scan you. MAYBE your Terms of Service are more lenient - I certainly hope so. But if you want to host your own web-services or even run a commercial website out of your basement legally, you may well have to upgrade to a commercial/home-business plan. In summary, read the fine print. And enjoy your phat pipe. ;) I just switched my company's outbound link to fiber and enjoyed downloading the latest Ubunto ISO at 1.4Megabytes/second. It reminded me of my first Mac SE w/ a 20 megabyte hard-drive. The I/O was so fast I would copy files around just to watch the progress bar on the file-copy dialog zip across the screen. Ah, memories. :) -Rob -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20100707/f2fb3b95/attachment-0001.htm