Re: [PLUG] Comcast@Home?

[aab@drexel.edu]

Read the agreement closely if you intend to work from home.  Comcast@Home
doesn't allow VPN use (according to their agreement) since they subsidize
their income by aggregating your web traffic and selling the information
to marketing groups.

For the curious: http://www.comcastonline.com/clr-agreement-v3.pdf

Section 5 is your privacy, 6.b.viii is "no VPN" (which, while protecting
you from their inability to secure the shared network - section 9 - would
also prevent them from gathering the information for section 5).  They do
have Comcast Work@Home (or something like that) that allows VPN use, but 
also costs another $50(?) per month.

If you do work from home and your work environment suddenly decides that
VPNs are necessary to do so, you could experience a gouge in your wallet.

andrew.

On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Bill Jonas wrote:

> Does anyone have experience with cable internet access around here?  I
> live in Media, I guess I would get it from Comcast@Home were I to get
> it.  I just moved across the hall to a larger apartment and I'm hearing
> from Speakeasy (whose service I'm *very* satisfied with) that it'll
> probably be two months before I get hooked up.  (Wait 30 days or until
> my first phone bill comes before I can even *place* the order, then
> another 2-3 weeks (yeah right, I'll believe it when I see it) for the
> install.)
> 


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