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Re: vpn said by cdru:Frontier 35mbit symmetrical residental FIOS: $56.50
Frontier 35mbit symmetrical business FIOS w/ static IP: $129.99
I would not consider 73.49 a "few extra dollars". Even at just the $15, it's still ridiculous as static IPs aren't necessary. *shrug*, don't know what to tell you, the choices I had (also from Frontier) were:
3/384 residential dsl for $34.95
6/1 business dsl for $60 + $10 for static IP
I could get by without the static IP but as I've already said it just makes life easier.
said by cdru:Privacy isn't a concern here...just accessing MY data is. And it's not even just data. Applications as well. I'm a web developer, and from time to time I have reasons to need to check to see what a project I'm working on looks like or behaves from outside of our corporate network. Yes this is now a "business" function, but it's still my residential connection. So you're using it for commercial purposes? It sounds like you'll need to pony up some dollars if your ISP ever decides to go this route. I'll concur that it sucks but the sad reality is that the vast majority of users will never know or care that they don't have globally valid IP addresses. Those who need them will have to pay extra for a scarce resource or wait for the deployment of IPV6. That's the law of supply and demand: limited resource + increased demand = higher prices.
BTW, I'm not sure if Frontier's residential FIOS service is under the same AUP as the residential DSL service but if it is you've got a problem:
Customers may not resell High Speed Internet Access Service ("Service") without a legal and written agency agreement with Frontier. Customers may not retransmit the Service or make the Service available to anyone outside the premises (i.e. wi-fi or other methods of networking). Customers may not use the Service to host any type of commercial server.
Frontier's residential Internet access services are provided for residential usage only. Commercial or business use of residential services is prohibited. In the event of such usage Frontier at its option may suspend or terminate service or may move the customer to a commercial Internet access service, in which case higher charges may apply.
Users may not run any program which makes a service or resource available to others, including but not limited to port redirectors, proxy servers, chat servers, MUDs, file servers, and IRC bots. Users may not run such programs on their own machines to make such services or resources available to others through one of our dialup or DSL accounts; a dedicated access account is required for such purposes.
That's another reason why I opted for business class service; the AUP is far more permissive and essentially prohibits nothing other than hacking, open relays, UCE and child pornography. | |
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kudos:7 | said by Crookshanks:BTW, I'm not sure if Frontier's residential FIOS service is under the same AUP as the residential DSL service but if it is you've got a problem:
Customers may not retransmit the Service or make the Service available to anyone outside the premises (i.e. wi-fi or other methods of networking). Any type of peer to peer communications (and not just p2p file sharing) would be in violation of this if interpreted in the most strict literal sense. The intent of this clause is to prevent a customer from sharing their connection with their neighbor for instance.
Users may not run any program which makes a service or resource available to others, including but not limited to port redirectors, proxy servers, chat servers, MUDs, file servers, and IRC bots. Users may not run such programs on their own machines to make such services or resources available to others through one of our dialup or DSL accounts; a dedicated access account is required for such purposes.
If ANY and ALL servers are prohibited, then there wouldn't be clauses necessary that says paraphrased, "Commercial servers are prohibited". The commercial could be removed and simplify things by just saying "Any server is prohibited." But that is not their intent and we both know it. | |
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