[CLUE-Tech] linux & broadband

[Brandon N]

--- Jeremiah Stanley <miah at miah.org> wrote:
> > I get the impression that cable modems are not nearly as versatile,
> > but I forget sometimes.  Thanks for catching me.
> 
> In my experience with most cable modems is that they are just dumb
> packet
> forwarders to a 'nicer' piece of equipment on the other end of the
> cable.
> The part of the service that is less _usable_ is the fact that @Home
> blocks some ports coming onto their network (http and ftp: nothing
> saying
> you can't just run ftp on another port though...).

Where exactly did you hear that from?  I run a webserver on my @home
modem and have had no problems accessing that or the ftp connection
(mostly turned off unless I'm using something)

Brandon

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