"Digital Wokan" wrote: > I have to ask because @Home never blocked me for some reason. Tonight, > I have a theory. Mine was blocked without warning on ports 25 and 80 for a week or two. Then 25 opened up, as I was hit back a backlog of old e-mails. I don't think 80 ever came back though. As of 10/1, I'm on @Work, so I can't say what's up lately. > Do any of those people who can't use port 80 have the > old LanCity modems, or were you all switched to the newer models? I was on one of the General Instruments Surfboard units, but started out with the LANcity LCP way back when. They had no trouble filtering SMB networking with the LCp either. > [...] The old LanCity doesn't care, but > the new models do and won't sync up. They can't change my info without > corrupting the account under their current system, so we put the LC back > on and after a few minutes, it sync'd up again. I had the opposite problem, thus the Surfboard. > I never realized just how programmable those new ones are. I always > though if your service was "capped" at so many K/sec, it was because > @Home did it at the router. Seems it's the modems doing the capping and > LC's are too old to do it. (Yes!) The LCp was pre-standards, so there were some combinations of things it wouldn't do. However, are you sure you're not capped. I definitely felt it when the cap went in on the LCp. In fact, I actually was bumped from 128Kbps to 256Kbps as part of the upgrade to the GI modem. > This does leave me wondering... Why would a manufacturer purposely sell > something crippled to consumers? If I went out to buy a cable modem > (assume using the docsis standard), why would I want to buy something > that's been crippled? I would think there'd be a great incentive for a > company to sell a cable modem that can't be capped. Customers would > very likely prefer that in principle at the least. DOCSIS *includes* some of those crippling features. Makes sense, as it's only meant to be a consumer-grade service, so there are a number of options for various combinations of up and downstream speeds. HFC (cable) networks vary, but most have a shared upstream path, so true symmetrical bandwidth is uncommon and expensive. > (Until then, they can have my LanCity when they pry it from my cold > hands... maybe I should go turn off the AC.) My current unit is a Toshiba. Can't say that it feels any different in terms of speed -- though it has been VERY good lately. Biggest difference to me is I got my boss to sign off on billing it to the company now! - Bob