[TriLUG] OT: TIME WARNER ANNOUNCES INTRODUCTION OF PACKET SHAPING TECHNOLOGY NATIONWIDE

Warren Myers volcimaster at gmail.com
Mon Jun 11 15:47:07 EDT 2007


what happens when large masses start monkeying with the ports they use for
stuff?

I mean, grandpa isn't gonna be tweaking bittorrent ports, but he's probably
not using it either

WMM


On 6/11/07, Magnus <magnus at trilug.org> wrote:
>
> OlsonE at aosa.army.mil wrote:
> > I had that convo with them today about hosting my webpage at home, and
> > he told me:
> >
> > "You can host it at home, but in some areas we block port 80. If that's
> > the case, you can host it on a different port".
> >
> > I got the text transcript e-mailed to me from RR ...to keep as proof if
> > they try to come after me!
> >
> > Now that they've given me the thumbs up, time for some LAMP + MediaWiki!
>
>
> I'm using Earthlink which is weird.  I get install & bill from
> Time-Warner but it's a different logical network.  Different IP range,
> different servers, etc.  The difference being that Earthlink is very
> unambiguous about allowing customers to run "hobby servers" on
> residential service.
>
> The only port that is blocked for me is OUTBOUND, port 25.  I must have
> my Postfix server use Earthlink relays for outbound mail.  I can live
> with that, since their relays have been good.  I've not had any issues
> with inbound ports being blocked.
>
> I *have* noticed recently changes in my torrent performance where it
> looks strongly like they've been tweaking traffic shaping on me.
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