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I am using @home in the nashville area, and have three IP's on a four
computer network. It cost about $6.00 each a month extra for the other two
IP's.
Rich Wales <richw@webcom.com> wrote in message
news:19990917205957.37399.richw@wyattearp.stanford.edu...
> Ken Beveridge posted the following info that was sent to him from
> someone at @Home:
>
> > at this time, running a proxy server is against the
> > Acceptable Use Policy www.home.com/aup and you will have
> > your sevice terminated if you install a proxy server.
>
> Just so there is no confusion:  By "proxy server", I assume people are
> talking about a gateway / router / firewall system that allows a set of
> computers (i.e., a mini-network in the subscriber's home) to have access
> to the Internet via a single cable modem connected to the proxy server.
> Right?
>
> I just took a look at http://www.home.com/aup/ and found no mention of
> "proxy servers", gateways, firewalls, NAT, etc.  The policy does, to be
> sure, prohibit "servers", but my understanding of what it means is that
> @Home customers may not run any software that accepts "inbound" network
> connections initiated from the outside.  This is, of course, not what a
> "proxy server" does at all -- despite the word "server" in the name.
>
> I was seriously planning to get AT&T @Home (I live on the San Francisco
> peninsula) -- but if I can't hook it up to the mini-network in our home
> via a firewall router, I no longer see the point in exploring the idea.
>
> Rich Wales         richw@webcom.com         http://www.webcom.com/richw/