[Novalug] Oh Crap -- DSL ISP s generally

Michael Stone mstone@mathom.us
Wed Mar 28 14:32:38 EDT 2007


On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 02:22:38PM -0400, Ken Kauffman wrote:
>On Wed, March 28, 2007 12:24, Kevin Dwyer wrote:
>> It was a convenient excuse.
[snip]
>Bandwidth costs money.
>ISPs pay for bandwidth.
>Controlling inbound port access controls potentially exponential costs and
>risk.  

No, it was an excuse. If it was a bandwidth issue they'd be more 
concerned about bittorrent than a vanity website on a home server. If it 
was a security issue they'd block port 139/tcp. 

It's product line differentiation, nothing more.

Mike Stone



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