From: "david poehlman" <poehlman1@comcast.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: broadband cable throughput quality
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2004 20:54:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <001201c4622a$918e3120$6401a8c0@DAVIDPC> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040704222651.GA11001@gmx.net>
All I know is that I cannot reach any server I put on my box through my ip.
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From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow@gmx.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2004 6:26 PM
Subject: Re: broadband cable throughput quality
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that's weird. does comcast actually block any ports? last time I
checked it didn't. though maybe it's different depending on what area
you are in.
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 05:38:24PM -0400, david poehlman
wrote:
> In the years I have been on cable, I've never gotten good upload speeds.
> They don't want to encourage server usage on their systems so they block
the
> upload. As far as neighbors, when comcast took over as our service
> providor, and improved the network, I experienced a dramatic increase in
the
> quality of the connection no matter what the time of day or day of the
week.
> Any issues I now have with through put as far as download is concerned is
> with slow or busy servers. I have had some other issues, but they have
been
> attributable to a server being down or to a comcast outage. I really hate
> the 45k max uploads I get though and I also resent that I cannot use a
> server on my pc and have it reached from the outside world. This is
> especially bad for things like streaming media which I have the power to
do
> but which does no good since no one can get to it because comcast blocks
the
> ports.
>
>
>
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