You might find the following excerpt from Speakeasy.net (xDSL ISP) terms of
service helpful to your choice:
We believe in the right of the individual to broadcast information they
feel is important to the world via the Internet. Thus unlike many ISP's we
allow you to run a server (web, mail etc) over your DSL line. We do however
for common sense reasons have a policy of not allowing certain content, and
here they are: No Adult Content Servers, no IRC Servers and Bots. The
Speakeasy also reserves the right to refuse service at our discretion.
Our reason for these restrictions are simple and unbiased. All the above
services in general consume an extraordinary amount of bandwidth, and
generally are prone to malicious activity by persons frequenting those
sites. We prefer to keep things safe and simple for all our users.
So as long as you don't want to run an IRC server or serve adult content you
could run services with their service.
They also have pretty liberal IP allocation guidelines as follows:
IP allocation limits are as follows:
Residential 4 IPs Max (up to 4 more at $5/mo ea.)
SOHO 8 IPs Max (up to 8 more at $5/mo ea.)
Corporate As needed; for more than 16 you must fill out an IP
request form.
For more than 32 IPs, you must pay an additional $1
per IP per month.
I'm just a happy user of their service.
">audilvr@speakeasy.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ">owner-ale@ale.org [mailto:">owner-ale@ale.org]On Behalf Of Jeff
> Hubbs
> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 1:53 PM
> To: ">ale@ale.org
> Subject: [ale] THREAD FORK: Broadband vs DSL
>
>
> I've been pondering the xDSL vs. cable thing myself, planning
> to go one way
> or the other over the next few months. I plan to connect
> with an ipchains
> firewall and masquerade or not, depending on whether I get a
> range of IP
> addresses or just one.
>
> Call me stupid if you like (allright, not everyone at once,
> now!), but one
> of the things that I like about cable modems is that you
> could choose to
> offer services to your own cable neighborhood, such as an open-source
> distribution mirror, ircd, streaming a/v, etc.
>
> Do any of you do this yourselves or know someone who does?
> I'd be curious
> to know people's experiences.
>
> - Jeff
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Wandered Inn [mailto:">esoteric@denali.atlnet.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 12:31 PM
> > To: ">ale@ale.org
> > Subject: Re: [ale] Broadband vs DSL
> >
> >
> > Venkat Swaminathan wrote:
> > >
> > > I got my cable modem yesterday and so far things have been good.
> > > I asked the technician from MediaOne about the sharing of
> bandwidth
> > > and he told me that it would be a factor only where there were a
> > > lot of people, e.g. if I were in downtown, I would have to worry
> > > about it. He told me that it is not a big deal in the "suburbs".
> > >
> > > I asked him if he could tell me how many people were connected
> > > on the same line as I was and he said he could not. I don't know
> > > if he did not know or he was not allowed to reveal that info.
> >
> > If he doesn't know, then he can't tell you it won't be a factor. If
> > he's not allowed to reveal that info, then there's a reason
> he can't..
> >
> > --
> > Until later: Geoffrey ">esoteric@denali.atlnet.com
> >
> > I'm afraid there will be more problems with W2K than there were with
> > Y2K...
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