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Re: Shared DSL connection

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From: John
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 00:00
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BellSouth allows "in house/family" sharing of connections, as long as the
network isn't misconfigured so that it broadcasts local traffic or massive
pings, etc, across BellSouth's network, or highly overuses bandwidth.  Read
the Terms and Conditions:

http://services.bellsouth.net/footer/legal/acceptable_use_policy.html

John

"miss kool" <kool_software@my-deja.com> wrote in message
news:8q8sd4$r0f$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
> Glad the tweak worked for you. Just a word of advice - if you have a
> Residential DSL account with FastAccess, I don't recommend running more
> than one PC on the single connection; their Network Sysops run "network
> sweeps" to check what IPs are being held by which hardware (MAC)
> addresses; if they see more than one MAC address on a single IP, or
> more than one IP from a single location, your account can be
> temporarily disabled; but if more than 3 instances are logged, your
> account is gone for good, and your DSL line provisioning taken off. If
> your line qualifies, you can convert to a Small Business account for
> $15 more per month, and have as many PCs on a single connection as you
> like.
>
> here to help,
>
> miss kool :)
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