🚀 go-pugleaf

you can install what you want, just so it is not visible on the
network.  Many folks have servers galore set-up with the @Home just that
it is all internal and invisible to @Home.  That is all they care about.

Rich Wales wrote:
> 
> 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/