New at Rogers.

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 10:07:07AM -0400, CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:
> I don't care about port 25 being filtered. It is very easy to work 
> around that and there is at least some justification for filtering that 
> port. As for the static IP, every Rogers customer has a fully-qualified 
> domain name, something like 
> cpeXXXXXXX-cmXXXXXXX.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com. That is good enough for 
> me to ssh to machines at home, which is all I really need.
> 
> At the moment, Rogers is not throttling encrypted BT so I can download 
> an ISO reasonably quickly. However, I believe that it is only a matter 
> of time before they implement the same crap that Bell implemented and 
> destroy network performance on all encrypted communications. That would 
> have a very serious negative impact on my usage because I often have 
> multiple ssh sessions to various servers. I think this is a prelude to 
> charging for "business" usage to those people who depend on VPN connections.

I know of people that have asked rogers for business service and been
told that they can only order that if they are in a location zoned for
business.  So people have offered to pay extra for it and been told that
isn't an option either.

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Len Sorensen
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