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Re: SlashDot: "Comcast Gunning for NAT Users"
From: "W.D.McKinney" <deem () wdm com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 11:05:36 -0900 (AKST)
Hmmm, smells like a little of vendor knows more than the customer again. I love it when hardware vendors tell service providers how to make money/run the business. /Dee "Stephen Sprunk" <ssprunk () cisco com> wrote:
Thus spake "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol () JustThe net>On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Greg Pendergrass wrote:It doesn't make sense that an ISP should complain that customers use100% ofwhat they pay for.So you think that dialup users should be allowed to stay online 24/7 for $20/month on an account advertised as unlimited?If the ISP sells "unlimited" access, then customers have every right to use it without limit. If the ISP places restrictions on what access is allowed and/or how long, then it is no longer an unlimited service, and it would be fraud to market it as such. ISPs count on customers not using all of what is sold to them; if they turn out to be wrong, that is a part of the risk they took. S
Current thread:
- Re: Fwd: SlashDot: "Comcast Gunning for NAT Users", (continued)
- Re: Fwd: SlashDot: "Comcast Gunning for NAT Users" David Charlap (Jan 31)
- Re: Fwd: SlashDot: "Comcast Gunning for NAT Users" Gregory Urban (Jan 31)
- RE: SlashDot: "Comcast Gunning for NAT Users" Rowland, Alan D (Jan 31)
- Re: SlashDot: "Comcast Gunning for NAT Users" Jamie Norwood (Jan 31)
- RE: SlashDot: "Comcast Gunning for NAT Users" Greg Pendergrass (Jan 31)
- RE: SlashDot: "Comcast Gunning for NAT Users" Steven J. Sobol (Jan 31)
- Re: SlashDot: "Comcast Gunning for NAT Users" Scott Francis (Jan 31)
- RE: SlashDot: "Comcast Gunning for NAT Users" M. David Leonard (Jan 31)
- RE: SlashDot: "Comcast Gunning for NAT Users" Greg Pendergrass (Jan 31)
- Re: SlashDot: "Comcast Gunning for NAT Users" Stephen Sprunk (Jan 31)
- Re: SlashDot: "Comcast Gunning for NAT Users" W.D.McKinney (Jan 31)
- RE: SlashDot: "Comcast Gunning for NAT Users" Tim Irwin (Jan 31)
- RE: SlashDot: "Comcast Gunning for NAT Users" Vivien M. (Jan 31)
- RE: SlashDot: "Comcast Gunning for NAT Users" Patrick (Jan 31)
- Re: SlashDot: "Comcast Gunning for NAT Users" Nathan J. Mehl (Jan 31)
- Re: SlashDot: "Comcast Gunning for NAT Users" Adrian Chadd (Jan 31)
- Re: SlashDot: "Comcast Gunning for NAT Users" E.B. Dreger (Jan 31)
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- RE: SlashDot: "Comcast Gunning for NAT Users" Daniel Senie (Jan 31)
- Re: SlashDot: "Comcast Gunning for NAT Users" Stephen Griffin (Jan 31)
- RE: SlashDot: "Comcast Gunning for NAT Users" Deepak Jain (Jan 31)
- Re: SlashDot: "Comcast Gunning for NAT Users" Stephen Sprunk (Jan 31)