On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
So DOCSIS has a technical limitation which may or may not apply. This is reasonable justification for limiting upstream bandwidth, not for specifying that users can't run servers. If users can run servers effectively in
Thus spake "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com> the
limited available upstream bandwidth, then there is no _technical_ reason to prevent them.
how are 'servers' (smtp/web/ftp/imap) different than the existing P2P apps? Wouldn't a cable provider, if the decision was based on upstream bandwidth sharing alone, care MORE about P2P than 'servers' ?
I don't know how common this is, but my ISP's AUP considers P2P apps to be "servers" and thus banned. I don't use file-sharing apps so this doesn't really affect me, but I'm betting my SIP phone is technically a violation too. S Stephen Sprunk "Stupid people surround themselves with smart CCIE #3723 people. Smart people surround themselves with K5SSS smart people who disagree with them." --Aaron Sorkin