--- paul <pkdb1@attbi.com> wrote:
> I did have some tier 1 support droid tell me that
> running NAT or 
> in anyway having more than one machine networked at
> one time was 
> "stealing bandwidth" but if you keep a cool head and
> get up to 2nd 
> or 3rd tier, you'll find it's no big deal. They
> don't care that 
> you run FreeBSD or whathaveyou: they do care if you
> run a spam 
> generator or newsserver.
> 
> 
> Wolfgang Rupprecht wrote:
> 
> > quadreverb@yahoo.com (Andy R) writes:
> > 
> >>I had that in mind, but I think it's a bit more
> >>ominous than that. Everybody I called on the phone
> had
> >>no idea what a TCP/IP network really was, 
> >>
> > 
> > When AT&T took over the network they took the
> opportunity to change
> > all the agreements again by adding yet more things
> that one couldn't
> > do.  If you pieced all the restrictions together
> they appeared to be
> > claiming that running NAT or any other daemons
> would constitute "theft
> > of services".  Then this following story hit and I
> a realized that
> > "theft of service" has a very specific legal
> meaning.
> > 
> >        
>
http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/metro/1215cable.html
> > 
> > I really didn't want some AT&T goofball deciding
> to enforce their
> > screwy "theft of service" definitions or worse try
> to confiscate my
> > computers as "evidence" of sorts.  ISP's are a
> dime a dozen.  There is
> > no need to do business with one that puts your
> computers and liberty
> > at risk.
> > 
> > -wolfgang
> > 

The link above is quite a horrifying read. The cable
company can't keep control over it's own network, then
blames people for stealing? If they actually knew what
they were doing, they woulnd't have a problem.

I already am moving ISP's, so it's not a big deal. But
I'd really like someone to be accountable for what
they are doing to people. It's not OK to sell
something you don't know anything about. I wouldn't be
so annoyed if they at least put some effort into what
they were telling me. It seemed like they were just
told to deny anything related to "static IP" that
didn't also come with their "Work account". That
sucks. We'll see what the attorney general has to say
about it.

Andy

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