Re: [SLUG] time warner port blocking

From: Andrew Wyatt (awyatt@bbsgamers.com)
Date: Wed Jan 30 2002 - 13:09:28 EST


I just started the process to switch to Earthlink, same Time Warner
bill, 2Mb bandwidth download cap 384Kb upload cap. No blocked ports, and
only $41.95 a month :-)

-Andrew

On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 22:11, Bpreece wrote:
> Hello Folks,
> I do not know if you guys remember several of my previous messages
> concerning Time Warner
> and Road Runner. They Block ports that is why you can not set up FTp's
> unless you get
> the professional version of Road Runner. They also cap your bandwidth. This
> is just a few things that
> good ole TW does. If you check you will find out that now tw also only will
> promise you 256k band width
> considering you should be able to push 10mb full speed that is a far cry
> less. You now only will get
> dsl speed at best. They over sold the bandwidth and they do port blocks and
> they also will not
> allow you to set up a game server or anything.
>
> Right now Earthlink is promising that you can get up to 50 times faster then
> dial up on cable
> even thought they go through TW the rep told me that TW can not cap
> Earthlinks speed because that
> would violate FCC regulations. Also earthlink does not care how many PC's
> you set up! They also said
> if for any reason if I discover that the speed is capped then call them
> immediately
>
> It's sad considering that they also use to say on the up to 100 times faster
> then dialup which is bull!
> They also filter newsgroups and do not give you full postings from the news
> groups several times as well.
> If you post they will filter it as well. I was happy before to pay $40.00 a
> month for the speed now $44.95 for less what a gyp.
>
> The other sad thing is I want to know why Best Buys , Comp USA , Circuit
> City , Staples , and Office Depot sell
> cable modems that are standard DOCSIS standard that you can not use in
> Hillsborough County because Tw here
> does not support standard Docsis cable modems. Reason they can not cap the
> after market ones so you have to use their junk.
>
> That is also like before I was paying for HBO and after 5 years of never
> needing a box now you have to have a box to watch it
> even if you pay for the channel so they can charge you a extra $5.95 month
> for a box and extra $3.95 month for a remote if the box has one. Your cable
> ready tuner sets and VCR can only get basic cable without the box before if
> you paid for premium channel you could also watch that . Not any more !!!
> SCAM SCAM SCAM Finally they prebill you per month early before the dates
> you use it the way they do this comes out to they make 3 extra months worth
> of payments in a year! This needs to be stopped! Example bill says pay
> $95.00 for Feb 1st - march 1st but this will be due on the 21st of Feb!
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Grantham, Patrick <Patrick.Grantham@vacationclub.com>
> To: 'slug@nks.net' <slug@nks.net>
> Cc: Klawon, Kevin (MVCI) <Kevin.Klawon@vacationclub.com>
> Date: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 9:25 AM
> Subject: [SLUG] time warner port blocking
>
>
> >If you have not found out yet, TWC is blocking incomming tcpip port 80 for
> >their residentianl customers in central florida. Accosding to the tech
> >support (and testing proves it to be true) they are presently blocking only
> >incomming port 80. Examining my apache log files, this apparently (and
> >covertly) started Jan 24. Is anyone else experiencing this? Pleading with
> >the tech support, "Please open it up for me, I use Linux," proved not to be
> >helpful. I conveyed my displeasure not having been notifued to this
> >impending change. He just gave me a number to call to complain. Is anyone
> >else experiencing this?
>
>



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