RE: SlashDot: "Comcast Gunning for NAT Users"
If the ISP sells "unlimited" access, then customers have every right to use it without limit.
Indubitably. But customers are not free to pick and choose among which provisions of the service agreement they want to abide by. If the ISP provides unlimited access but limits the account to a single host, then that is the terms of service. The problem, as has been noted, is enforcement.
If the ISP places restrictions on what access is allowed and/or how long, then it is no longer an unlimited service, and it would be fraud to market it as such.
ISPs count on customers not using all of what is sold to them; if they turn out to be wrong, that is a part of the risk they took.
S
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Borchers, Mark wrote:
If the ISP sells "unlimited" access, then customers have every right to use it without limit.
Indubitably. But customers are not free to pick and choose among which provisions of the service agreement they want to abide by. If the ISP provides unlimited access but limits the account to a single host, then that is the terms of service. The problem, as has been noted, is enforcement.
It is a single computer. If I have a dialup, as I have now, it is one computer. If it NAT's other computers through it, I'm still using exactl one connection. One IP. Now, if I were to get two computers, and have both of them dialup, then they'd have reason to complain and kick me off. By the same token, a NAT box is one computer, uses the resources of one computer. Only one computer is plugged into the cable-modem. Its a router, but its still only one computer. Also, 'terms and services' can be interesting.. Pulling out the nearest paperback: ``Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in, or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, or by any means ... without the prior written permission ....'' -- Publication page of Simon Green's 'Deathstalker War' Which claims, among other things that I cannot send this email, and I cannot quote any extract, no matter how small, from that paperback. Both of which are nonsense. Scott
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