Sprint broadband

[Craig White]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Ken
> Bowley
> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 7:26 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: Sprint broadband
>
>
> Despite all the horror stories, I have this service, and it kicks A$$ for
> where I live!  I don't do a lot of uploading, so I don't know exactly what
> that looks like.  I don't normally see any packet loss, and I commonly
> average over 400K when downloading the kernel source (I happen to have
> found an FTP site with a great route, let me know if you have a Sprint
> Broadband connection and want to know which one it is)
>
> I have received a phone call (answering machine got it
> unfortunately) letting me know that they had detected a "virus" on my
> system that was "eating network resources and degrading service for other
> customers."  I never did get any information out of them on what type of
> traffic they were seeing that led them to come to the conclusion that I
> had a virus. :)  When I talked to them on the phone the clueless
> tech(?) tried to tell me that the "virus" was attacking other
> systems.  I'm still waiting for them to explain that one to me.....
>
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I got the same phone call and so did many of my customers that I have put a
linux router/firewall on. I suppose you can do as Greg says and block their
scans but I just called them and told them I had linux and their scanning
for viruses makes a poor assumption that I am running Windows. That seems to
settle it.

btw...their upload speed does suck - it's worse than @home but until @home
comes knocking at my door...it looks like the University of Illinois.

Craig