@Home bans VPNS

Rick Blanchard rick.blanchard at KORTECO.COM
Fri Aug 25 21:28:37 EDT 2000


I may be mistaken in this, but it is how I understand it.

The original referenced Usage Agreement was from Comcast's website.  Comcast
is a cable TV provider in some regional area.  Where I live we have AT&T
Cable.  We also have AT&T at Home.  Same @Home, different cable provider.

At http://www.comcastonline.com/aboutus.asp  it says that Comcast and @Home
are partners.

This is the question: Does each cable provider can make up their own access
rules, or do all the @Home services use the same set of rules?

Since the only one I've seen to be restrictive is Comcast at Home. I am
assuming each cable provider sets their own rules.  I could be wrong.

Just my $.02

Rick


-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph S D Yao [mailto:jsdy at cospo.osis.gov]
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 5:23 PM
To: Rick Blanchard
Cc: VPN at SECURITYFOCUS.COM
Subject: Re: @Home bans VPNS


On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 08:36:31AM -0500, Rick Blanchard wrote:
> The rules referenced are for Comcast at Home.
>
> Is this Subscriber Agreement only for Comcast, or have all @Home providers
> also changed their Subscriber Agreements to outlaw VPN traffic?
>
> Rick

You may have to enlighten most of us as to the differences.  Are you
saying that there are @Home "franchisees"?

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