Re: [PLUG] Comcast or Verizon DSL for Linux laptop?

[Scott <scott@scottah.com>]

FYI-

In Reading the Verizon service has been really poor lately.  Outages 
lasting up to a week with no real answers from them.  I used it for about 
3 months and I was not real happy as I had the business grade 768k and I 
never saw that amount of bandwidth available.  More like 512.

Have been with Comcast since March and other than the usual Sunday night 
maintenance outage it has been wonderful.

-Scott

On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Rebecca Ore wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Noah silva wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Yeah my friend said she couldn't even use AIM to do file transfers (in
> > windows).  this shouldn't be allowed to be sold as an internet connection,
> > it should have be be called "limited access solution", or something
> > similarly revealing.
> 
> Yes, it does appear to be the case that they're blocking file transfers in AIM.
> My niece is testing this with me and says that a lot of businesses and
> universities are also blocking this due to viruses and such.
> 
> Verizon's explanation for the port 80 block was that too many people were
> either getting infected by the various worms and viruses, or complaining to
> Verizon about seeing attempts in their apache logs.
> 
> 

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