[Novalug] ISPs

[Jay Hart]

> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 09:09:27AM -0500, greg pryzby wrote:
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>> Jay Hart wrote:
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>> > Yea, I get calls from time to time from Verizon about switching to FIOS.
>> As
>> > soon as I realize its a call about FIOS, I immediately ask "Do you do port
>> > filtering", the second they put me on hold or ask me what that means, I
>> hang
>> > up.
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>> depending on the port you are using, you MAYBE in violation of Terms of
>> Service.
>>
>> you can get every port you want IF you purchase business (my
>> understanding) and that is true for any ISP. If you are a home user, and
>> pay home user prices, most ISPs do not allow http and other ports in.
>>
>
> Back in NJ with ComCast cable broadband I occasionally would
> put up a webserver for extended family activities.
>
> When I moved here a year ago and got FIOS, I looked through their
> pretty long TOS to see what activities were specifically denied.
> It didn't seem to me (IANAL) that things like webservers or
> mail servers etc. were specifically denied.  Instead the TOS
> was written in terms of "adversely affect" or "significantly
> impact" the verizon network.
>
> Port filtering doesn't seem to match the very reasonable TOS.
>

Call them up and ask them which ports they would filter if you had FIOS
installed.  I've had them tell me several different times (which is why I now
hang up on them) that they filter port 25.

Jay

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