Fw: [WISPA] Fw: [Ham-80211] Access control suggestions

[Drew Baxter]

At 03:27 PM 11/5/2004, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
 >unfortunately, you are only going to have a duopoly of services 
(Comcast/Verizon) which isn't really competition as we found out with the 
early days of
 >the cellular phone market.  expect a significant period of technical 
stagnation except for what the open source community manages to implement
 >around restrictions implemented by the Comcast/Verizon 
you-do-what-we-tell-you AUP's.

I'm a Great Works Internet user, 3000/768 for 29.95 a month for 
DSL.  Comcast doesn't exist here, you're thinking 'Adelphia'.  Verizon has 
no rules about servers or how you use their service which makes it quite 
different than Comcast any day.  They also don't block ports.  I think 
Verizon is very flexible in their "As long as you don't do anything 
illegal" AUP.  Meanwhile Comcast has data transfer rules where they can cut 
you off for downloading or uploading too much.

Cable Internet technology is much more finite than DSL is as far as 
bandwidth goes.  The problem is, DSL's availability is much less, except 
here in Maine where Cable is not available to a large population.

--Droo, K1XVM