[SLL] Nationwide Internet: melting down?

[Ken Meyer]

Yes, this is the sort of thing that I hypothesize might keep Comcast from
enforcing its SA at present.  Now, if Qwest would succeed in getting its
services categorized under the rules that govern cable offerings, i.e. not
common carrier centric, would they still do this, or would both types of
service go to pay per connection.

Of course, Qwest wants the cake and eat it too, since they are also arguing
for state or national franchising, which the cable industry that they want
to emulate in other respects does not enjoy, at least at present, though the
FCC is doing its best to undermine that prerogative.

So who is this Mueller cat that is the new Qwest CEO; anybody know his
history?  Cheers or moans in order?

Ken M.


-----Original Message-----

From: linux-list-bounces at ssc.com [mailto:linux-list-bounces at ssc.com]On
Behalf Of Glenn Stone
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 2:17 PM
To: linux-list at ssc.com

Subject: Re: [SLL] Nationwide Internet: melting down?

On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 02:03:03PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:

>On Mon, Aug 13, 2007, Ken Meyer wrote:

>>The Comcast Service Agreement (SA) says that it is "theft of service" to
>>connect more computers without paying $5 for the first one and (I think)
>>$9.50 total for up to 5 total connections, but I THINK that this results
in
>>an IP address for each connection.
>
>I would think that most clueful people would be installing
>routers on broadband connections, if only to protect their
>Microsoft virusses from outside attacks.  QWest has been
>providing DSL ``modems'' with NAT for several years now.

*nods* I rather like the little modem-cum-wireless-and-wired-router thingy I
 got from Qwest this last time.  Wifi security is *turned on by default*,
 and the CD you get includes cookbook instructions for setting it up without
 the use of a Windows box.  Works like a charm; I haven't had any issues
 with it other than the fact that Qwest resets our IP every once in a
 while... every week or two, I think.  Full-house firewall, DMZ, QOS, whole
 nine yards.  At least as good as the stock firmware on an WRT54GL...

I gotta wonder what kind of firmware the thing runs... it almost acts like
it's running Linux, but I'm not quite smart enough to figure out for
sure... it's a 2-Wire 2700 HG... Google was not much help.

I really should re-enable ddclient again....

-- Glenn