I've had my IP address for over a year. I've never registered a domain name and pointed it to it for the fact that it is DHCP. For the past 2.5 years I've had 3 IP address from comcast. I can say I think its bullllllll craaap that they discurage running servers or anything like that and I can say I believe it to be because ISP companies are overselling their bandwidth, similar to the airline industry overbooks flights and uses a probability engine betting a percentage of people will not make it to the gate for the flight. Comcast and other ISP's do this very thing except your packets are the passengers and their routers are the gates for your packets flight.

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I have noticed there seem to be a few comcast employees that
participate in this message board. I have been trying to help a friend who's only option is comcast cable internet. Here is his situation.

He is a small business who moved, and got comcast being only thing he
can recieve. He has been trying to find out if there is a small
business, or dedicated line package to where he can Host some small
load servers, and get static addresses..

Only thing he ever found on the site was "Extended Lease" IPS, to where you could possibly hold the IP for several months, but no gurantee. I guess he said Comcast extremely discourages any servers being ran...

Have any ideas, on how he can navigate to the right people to get a
better package, or is he stuck?

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Re: ATTN: Comcast Employees
By: Gw to All on Thu May 10 2007 12:40 am

I've had my IP address for over a year. I've never registered a domain name pointed it to it for the fact that it is DHCP. For the past 2.5 years I've h 3 IP address from comcast. I can say I think its bullllllll craaap that they discurage running servers or anything like that and I can say I believe it t be because ISP companies are overselling their bandwidth, similar to the airline industry overbooks flights and uses a probability engine betting a percentage of people will not make it to the gate for the flight. Comcast an other ISP's do this very thing except your packets are the passengers and th routers are the gates for your packets flight.

I have Time Warner and supposedly on DHCP as well, and my IP has changed
twice in the four years I've lived where I'm at now. Once was because I changed the MAC address on my router and the other was when we were without power for about 3 days.

Each cable modem provider has their own ways of setting the DHCP leasing times, and having the same IP for this long does make it easier for me to
run services like Telnet and WWW. I actually have my domain name
registered and using DNS have it pointing to my home IP. If or when my
home IP changes, I figure it's a small amount of downtime to update my DNS
to the new Ip.

Sam


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Re: ATTN: Comcast Employees
By: Gw to All on Thu May 10 2007 12:40 am

I've had my IP address for over a year. I've never registered a domain name pointed it to it for the fact that it is DHCP. For the past 2.5 years I've h 3 IP address from comcast. I can say I think its bullllllll craaap that they discurage running servers or anything like that and I can say I believe it t be because ISP companies are overselling their bandwidth, similar to the airline industry overbooks flights and uses a probability engine betting a percentage of people will not make it to the gate for the flight. Comcast an other ISP's do this very thing except your packets are the passengers and th routers are the gates for your packets flight.

I have Time Warner and supposedly on DHCP as well, and my IP has
changed twice in the four years I've lived where I'm at now. Once was because I changed the MAC address on my router and the other was when
we were without power for about 3 days.

Each cable modem provider has their own ways of setting the DHCP
leasing times, and having the same IP for this long does make it easier for me to run services like Telnet and WWW. I actually have my domain name registered and using DNS have it pointing to my home IP. If or
when my home IP changes, I figure it's a small amount of downtime to update my DNS to the new Ip.

There are automatic solutions... if you can live without your first
choice of site names.

Rob offers one, infact.



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Who is your DNS registered with? I wouldn't mind registering a DNS but I haven't considered pointing to comast dns servers.

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Re: ATTN: Comcast Employees
By: Gw to All on Thu May 10 2007 12:40 am

I've had my IP address for over a year. I've never registered a domain name pointed it to it for the fact that it is DHCP. For the past 2.5 years I've h 3 IP address from comcast. I can say I think its bullllllll craaap that they discurage running servers or anything like that and I can say I believe it t be because ISP companies are overselling their bandwidth, similar to the airline industry overbooks flights and uses a probability engine betting a percentage of people will not make it to the gate for the flight. Comcast an other ISP's do this very thing except your packets are the passengers and th routers are the gates for your packets flight.

I have Time Warner and supposedly on DHCP as well, and my IP has
changed twice in the four years I've lived where I'm at now. Once was because I changed the MAC address on my router and the other was when
we were without power for about 3 days.

Each cable modem provider has their own ways of setting the DHCP
leasing times, and having the same IP for this long does make it easier for me to run services like Telnet and WWW. I actually have my domain name registered and using DNS have it pointing to my home IP. If or
when my home IP changes, I figure it's a small amount of downtime to update my DNS to the new Ip.

Sam

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I don't think my 1st choice is taken, unless you mean Rob will just take my 1st choice no matter what it is.

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Without regards to the social ramifications;

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Re: ATTN: Comcast Employees
By: Gw to All on Thu May 10 2007 12:40 am

There are automatic solutions... if you can live without your first
choice of site names.

Rob offers one, infact.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe
as it really is than to persist in delusion,
however satisfying and reassuring. - Carl Sagan

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Re: ATTN: Comcast Employees
By: Gw to Gw on Tue May 15 2007 05:47 pm

Who is your DNS registered with? I wouldn't mind registering a DNS but I haven't considered pointing to comast dns servers.

Your note was from and to you, but since it had a message from me quoted, I figured I'd reply none the less.

I actually use a shared host called page-zone (www.page-zone.com) for my websites, and they do DNS on their end for all my domains. I can either
host the content there or plug-in an IP to be resolved, which is what I did with sidebandbbs.com. My ISP at home is Road Runner, but in the four years I've been where I'm at now my IP has changed twice -- so i just plug-in my home's IP address in at page-zone and everything resolves there.

There are some freebie DNS services out there, but I've never used them.

Hope this helps --

Sam


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Sam Alexander wrote:

There are some freebie DNS services out there, but I've never used them.

A lot of Registrars will actually offer DNS services for the domain, if you need a dynamic address support, you're better off with something that offers that, and with which you can run a tool that will autoupdate if your IP changes though...

http://zoneedit.com offers free service for your first 5 domains iirc...

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Re: ATTN: Comcast Employees
By: Gw to All on Wed May 09 2007 11:40 pm

I've had my IP address for over a year. I've never registered a domain name pointed it to it for the fact that it is DHCP. For the past 2.5 years I've h 3 IP address from comcast. I can say I think its bullllllll craaap that they discurage running servers or anything like that and I can say I believe it t be because ISP companies are overselling their bandwidth, similar to the airline industry overbooks flights and uses a probability engine betting a percentage of people will not make it to the gate for the flight. Comcast an other ISP's do this very thing except your packets are the passengers and th routers are the gates for your packets flight.

Cable Companies want Grandma Clickers and Email Readers and count on people
not using it. I guess Cable Token Ring type network if the user does alot
of upload it lags other users in your hood. They are counting on you
bursting a little data and getting off.

Well you can buy a Corvette that will go 200 mph doesn't mean you can drive
it 200.. Andvaned users who know the in and outs of keeping the connection
busy are like a train of packets on a 6 lane highway only able to use 2
lanes. I told them this they said no, "We rented you a car and you put 5000 miles on it." In my area they are starting to watch that and sent me a
letter for Fraud and Abuse and told me I wasn't paying enough for uploading
50 gigs in 8 days and downloading 30 gigs when the average user does
about 8 gigs a month. With all the server stuff I have my local friend
who runs a dial up ISP said, "Stop trying to be a ISP." Cable companies
have a no server AUP. They did this after 7 years as a customer and
blocked my port 23. Mind you none of my stuff was peer to peer or no
open file shares of music or movies or any of that.. That's what pissed me
off the most.



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Re: ATTN: Comcast Employees
By: General Mdk to Gw on Fri Oct 12 2007 14:16:00

Courious, what kind of modem do you have? I just got the VOIP and they gave me an Arris TM502g which has its own telnet port and blocks my BBS's port 23. I have to now change the telnet port for the BBS lol. Oh well.


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Re: ATTN: Comcast Employees
By: bgdjr to General Mdk on Sun Oct 14 2007 06:44 am

Courious, what kind of modem do you have? I just got the VOIP and they
gave me an Arris TM502g which has its own telnet port and blocks my BBS's port 23. I have to now change the telnet port for the BBS lol. Oh well.

I have a Motorola Surfboard here for Crapcast.

Model #SB5120

I don't have VOIP though.

Mine is about 3 years old.


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Re: ATTN: Comcast Employees
By: bgdjr to General Mdk on Sun Oct 14 2007 06:44:00

Re: ATTN: Comcast Employees
By: General Mdk to Gw on Fri Oct 12 2007 14:16:00

Courious, what kind of modem do you have? I just got the VOIP and they gave an Arris TM502g which has its own telnet port and blocks my BBS's port 23. have to now change the telnet port for the BBS lol. Oh well.

Barry G. Davis, Jr.
SysOp - BGD Consulting and Graphics
telnet://bgdcag.biz
http://www.bgdcag.biz

Most ISPs are like this nowadays and probably to kill piracy. My ISP (sympatico) does block port 23, 25, 80, 8080, and so on and depending on
which BitTorrent client I use, it may also throttle the connection which totally sucks. Unfortunatly, we can only say "oh well" but think back in the time BBS were only by phone, we didnt have this problem and could share basically everything (ok, at a low speed, but still) and nothing much was a problem, it was harder to find someone sharing piracy of any sorts, or so I think.

Anyway, it sucks for you =/

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Most ISPs are like this nowadays and probably to kill piracy. My ISP (sympatico) does block port 23, 25, 80, 8080, and so on and depending on which BitTorrent client I use, it may also throttle the connection which totally sucks. Unfortunatly, we can only say "oh well" but think back in the time BBS were only by phone, we didnt have this problem and could share basically everything (ok, at a low speed, but still) and nothing much was a problem, it was harder to find someone sharing piracy of any sorts, or so I think.

Anyway, it sucks for you =/

- ikarius - Revival BBS - telnet://revivalbbs.servebbs.com:255/

yeah bbses were slow back then but they were better in some respects.

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Re: ATTN: Comcast Employees
By: bgdjr to General Mdk on Sun Oct 14 2007 06:44 am

Re: ATTN: Comcast Employees
By: General Mdk to Gw on Fri Oct 12 2007 14:16:00

Courious, what kind of modem do you have? I just got the VOIP and they gave an Arris TM502g which has its own telnet port and blocks my BBS's port 23. have to now change the telnet port for the BBS lol. Oh well.

It's a RT31P2 LinkSys Router... Look for the remote administration
setting in the modem. It may enable your port 23 for the BBS. I have that porblem with port 80. Because the remote tool for my DSL modem uses port 80 and no way to change it and so does my apache web server. Also can't access
in Linux with linx because the the data is encrypted. I would call Vonage they have good customer service. They may be able to disable it. I got one of the first generation routers they sent out. For the Modem I have a Action GT704WG I don't use it for VOIP though it's dedicated to the server. I have Mediacom cable as well because it's against AUP to serve anything on Mediacom they disconnected me for overuse. I had to get it under a different name. No big deal if you run synchronet you may need to edit some html to get the diffrent port to work. I am using port 24 after mediacom blocked me. I haven't switched it back long as the web page links work.


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Re: ATTN: Comcast Employees
By: Ikarius to bgdjr on Sun Oct 14 2007 07:10 pm

Most ISPs are like this nowadays and probably to kill piracy. My ISP

i dont see why isps would be interested in killing piracy. it has nothing to do with them. if their customer is breaking the law, have them report it to the isp and get that information for the lawsuit, i say.

(sympatico) does block port 23, 25, 80, 8080, and so on and depending on which BitTorrent client I use, it may also throttle the connection which totally sucks. Unfortunatly, we can only say "oh well" but think back in the time BBS were only by phone, we didnt have this problem and could share

dude, it's time to say 'goodbye' and find a better isp.
i woudnt put up with that crap. i'd go back to dialup before being over regulated like that.

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Re: ATTN: Comcast Employees
By: Jas Hud to Ikarius on Mon Oct 15 2007 08:00 pm

dude, it's time to say 'goodbye' and find a better isp.
i woudnt put up with that crap. i'd go back to dialup before being over regulated like that.

Well said. ISPs treat customers like shit, because they know just how powerful they actually are in modern society. And torrent clients aren't just used for distributing pirated warez, lots of legitimate software gets transferred using it (such as linux isos, etc.)

And maybe if software companies and movie studios actually made some decent products at an affordable price, people wouldn't be tempted to download illegally.
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> Well said. ISPs treat customers like shit, because they know just how powerf

they actually are in modern society. And torrent clients aren't just used fo distributing pirated warez, lots of legitimate software gets transferred usi it (such as linux isos, etc.)

yep, and at a fast speed, too. it's a great technology for file distribution. everyone needs to wake up and take it for what it is.

And maybe if software companies and movie studios actually made some decent products at an affordable price, people wouldn't be tempted to download

yeah, really. if i see a quality product, i pay for it.
no way in hell am i not going to try it out FIRST, though. i've been screwed over way too many times.

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