asteinmetz
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From my ISP's "Acceptable Use Policy:"
In my case, I wouldn't be generating any more traffic than I do anyway and it would stay in the family but the SA doesn't contemplate this possibility. It's silly to pay $200/mo for a commercial plan. I could constantly upload home status and camera images to the web page my ISP gives me, which would comply with the letter of the agreement, but that is more of a bandwidth suck than the hitting my home server occasionally. So currently I am a scofflaw. My ISP blocks incoming traffic to port 80 so I forward to other ports.
I'm thinking of writing a letter trying to work things out but I fear the faceless drones in the bowels of my cable company will just start monitoring me closely and try to cut off my service. Why do that when I have a workaround via port forwarding? I'd like to be fully compliant and have modify the SA to reflect the times. Others must surely be in my situation.
Has anybody here have a more enlightened SA or do anything other than "don't ask, don't tell?" Thanks.
That pretty much leaves out all the remote home monitoring stuff out there. I get the idea of the service agreement (SA). They don't want commercial users sucking up bandwidth while paying for a home plan or people otherwise hosting sites that generate gobs of hits from everywhere.You will not use, nor allow others to use, Your computer as a web server, FTP server, file server or game server or to run any other server applications.
In my case, I wouldn't be generating any more traffic than I do anyway and it would stay in the family but the SA doesn't contemplate this possibility. It's silly to pay $200/mo for a commercial plan. I could constantly upload home status and camera images to the web page my ISP gives me, which would comply with the letter of the agreement, but that is more of a bandwidth suck than the hitting my home server occasionally. So currently I am a scofflaw. My ISP blocks incoming traffic to port 80 so I forward to other ports.
I'm thinking of writing a letter trying to work things out but I fear the faceless drones in the bowels of my cable company will just start monitoring me closely and try to cut off my service. Why do that when I have a workaround via port forwarding? I'd like to be fully compliant and have modify the SA to reflect the times. Others must surely be in my situation.
Has anybody here have a more enlightened SA or do anything other than "don't ask, don't tell?" Thanks.