🚀 go-pugleaf

The real problem for the cable operators are the people who set up warez
servers or other high traffic ones.  Because of various legal
constraints the operators then forbid any network.  But, for the average
person, such as you, there is really no problem.  The cable company
can't see what you might have behind that router anyway, and unless your
traffic was such to draw attention, they won't blink.

 -er

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/

-- 

  -er