All I know is that I cannot reach any server I put on my box through my ip. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow@xxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2004 6:26 PM Subject: Re: broadband cable throughput quality -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 that's weird. does comcast actually block any ports? last time I checked it didn't. though maybe it's different depending on what area you are in. On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 05:38:24PM -0400, david poehlman wrote: > In the years I have been on cable, I've never gotten good upload speeds. > They don't want to encourage server usage on their systems so they block the > upload. As far as neighbors, when comcast took over as our service > providor, and improved the network, I experienced a dramatic increase in the > quality of the connection no matter what the time of day or day of the week. > Any issues I now have with through put as far as download is concerned is > with slow or busy servers. I have had some other issues, but they have been > attributable to a server being down or to a comcast outage. I really hate > the 45k max uploads I get though and I also resent that I cannot use a > server on my pc and have it reached from the outside world. This is > especially bad for things like streaming media which I have the power to do > but which does no good since no one can get to it because comcast blocks the > ports. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- How do you power off this machine? -- Linus, when upgrading linux.cs.helsinki.fi, and after using the machine for several months -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA6IQr9XVrM3ri110RAkPuAJ96nwNEcB7v4ieUeP+W2wEASeZp7QCfWSk+ PHvReHoUtzuPmFm06G8WQa8= =v8V8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
