We had comcast business and didn't have any problems with it in the St Louis Park area. Just a small business with an exchange server so no huge amounts of traffic.<br><br>Jason<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Marc Skinner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marc@e-skinner.net">marc@e-skinner.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">well, they just did it to me! they are now blocking port 25! i called<br>
and complained and they say - that they saw 5,000 emails or more come<br>
from my cable modem on a single day. so they are preventing that port<br>
now - and will not fix it.<br>
<br>
i know my system isn't sending that - i have no windows boxes, and the<br>
majority of my traffic is sent via a VPN. i did however download about<br>
500gb of corp data to my fileserver ( i work for red hat - need to<br>
synchronize all the software, etc) - and i'm sure that is what they<br>
flagged me - a large amount of data over a short amount of time. i had<br>
been happy with comcast but this is not cool.<br>
<br>
it also seems that they have reduced my upload speed from 4mb to 1.5mb<br>
... but i'll have to do some more testing to verify.<br>
<br>
might be time to increase my DSL circuit. i have always had a slow<br>
1.5mb DSL line as a backup, since my wife and i both work from home, and<br>
both our jobs rely on internet connectivity, i felt it worth the extra<br>
$20 a month for a slow backup line. it actually comes in handy about<br>
3-4 times a year, as my comcast line will go down for 1-3 days a couple<br>
of times during the year ... usually due to the local neighbourhood<br>
comcast visit that screws up something for the entire neighbourhood<br>
until i call and complain - like this weekend!<br>
<br>
might also have to look at the business comacast offering - faster and<br>
supposedly no limits or restrictions. anybody have that? i live in<br>
burnsville so any feed back regarding the comcast business offering<br>
would be useful.<br>
<br>
thanks!<br>
<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>jason<br>