I have a Qwest phone line but my ISP is VISI. Had to fight Qwest to keep my 7Mbps line but I won that battle. I have had no problems, about 25 bucks for the qwest connection and about 25 for VISI. I really like them because you can get a dedicated IP if you want. I use Bittorrent somewhat heavily (around 150+ Gigs a month) and so far they have been silent about it. Also run apache / postfix server on my connection. Thank god Qwest lets you chose an ISP other than MSN! And VISI is local ;-) On Sat, 2009-01-24 at 20:04 +0000, auditodd at comcast.net wrote: > So about 6 weeks ago I get an email from Comcast claiming that they have detected excessive traffic on port 25 coming from my home network and have shut down the port to prevent spam. Yeah right. I don't have teenagers and my home network is protected by a Smoothwall firewall. None of my computers are compromised. Period. > > So I call and bitch and they open up port 25 again. > I figured some asshat was spoofing my public IP address and using it to send spam so I asked them to force update my public IP. They stated that they can't do that (what a joke). So I knew it would probably happen again. > > I occasionally notice REALLY slow Internet connections and figured it was happening again. And of course I get another email this morning claiming that there is more spam coming from my network and they have shut down port 25 again. > > Then I remembered that I had a Bittorrent running on one of my machines and I realized what is going on. > > They aren't monitoring the ports... > They are monitoring the outgoing traffic, not what port it is on. > So they see my Bittorrent outgoing traffic and assume it is spam email. > > F**kin' morons. > Not even sure if it is worth bitching at them again. I don't really need port 25 open as I can adjust my mail clients to their 'new' port with no problems. Probably better off just dumping them and going to a real ISP. Guess it's time to start looking around for a new provider. > > I'm in the south east metro. Any suggestions for an ISP? > Qwest is the obvious provider, but I'm open to other suggestions. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list