[ale] re: RoadRunner

[Ben Coleman]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2000 11:37:24 -0400, Jennifer Taylor wrote:

>Are you subscribed as residential or commercial?  Generally speaking of
>broadband companies (I don't know about RoadRunner specifically) they
>don't let their residential subscribers run any sort of web or email services.

There are valid reasons for this (other than the desire of large
companies to soak their customers).  Cable bandwidth is shared with
your neighbors, and bandwidth used for your web server is bandwidth
that can't be used by your neighbors.  I know of someone who was on a
home.com cable network, and experienced pretty bad throughput.  They
eventually figured out that at least part of it was that they had
neighbors running web servers and the use of the servers was soaking up
the local bandwidth.  They've since moved on to ADSL, but they've
retained their newly-acquired hobby of checking home.com addresses for
web servers and such and reporting them to abuse at home.com if they find
them.

Ben
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