Before anyone speaks up about the thread it is Linux related. TWC did state
(to the effect of) Linux? You are on your own. I now know how the people
with Macs feel.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Wyatt" <awyatt@bbsgamers.com>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 1:09 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] time warner port blocking
> 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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