TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: Re: Comcast, Verizon Wage Licensing War/Towns Caught in Crossfire

Re: Comcast, Verizon Wage Licensing War/Towns Caught in Crossfire

Steven Lichter (shlichter@diespammers.com)
Wed, 16 Nov 2005 06:07:53 GMT

Kinon O'cann wrote:

> Comcast's best friend in this is Verizon. I had scheduled a move to
> FOIS, but cancelled when I learned that Verizon blocks many incoming
> ports, and although I can re-direct web and FTP traffic to other
> ports, that's a game I'd rather not play. Verizon can also block other
> ports, once they detect activity they don't like. I cancelled. I don't
> understand this behavior by Verizon at all. The relationship betwenn
> the customer and Verizon should be deadly simple: I pay for a
> connection, and then use it however I want (like I do now). Verizon
> limits speeds up and down, and that's their way of controlling network
> saturation. Then I learned they don't allow servers, either. What a
> joke. I pay for a connection, and they determine how I use it? No
> chance. Wake up, Verizon!

> FWIW, I only want to use web and FTP services to share digital pics
> with my family, and it's way more convenient than trying to constantly
> e-mail huge files.

Don't allow servers, that new. I have seen them supply rounters and
the such to their customers. As to blocking ports all IP's do that
when there are problems.

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