Graeme Fowler said :
> On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, David Bottrill wrote:
> > Fraid not, as your ISP only gives you 1 IP address then that would be of no
> > benefit. However you can use selective port forwarding to route say HTTP to
> > one box and SMTP to another.
>
> Once again, sorry to be the tedious boring legality pointing-out person...
> doesn't NTL explicitly forbid (and scan for) webservers and the like? I
> realise bucketloads of people run things on their cable modems, but then
> lots of people drive too fast, and that's against the rules too ;-)
>
> It's always worth checking the small print in your contracts, terms of
> service or whatever. I wouldn't want to get caught out, personally.
The last time I was reading ntl.broadband.cablemodem.support (?) before
their news server started getting horribly overloaded, and having the
maximum number of connections on, so I had to cut down so i could
actually connect (gggrrrr), their stance was that as long as it was not
abusing the service, then it was ok.. although if I remember correctly,
they decided what abused the service?
> If you do want to run services, I'd heartily recommend a non-NAT ADSL
> service instead. And it means you don't have to browse through
> disgustingly overloaded transparent Inktomi TrafficServers, too - although
> I get the feeling they've been rather better over recent months.
Can't/don't you get more up on ADSL too? If you are serving any number
of web pages, 128k is not that much no? (possibly as well as you
uploading anything else to anywhere).. The last time I looked at
demonadsl.co.uk, it was 250 (256?) k upwards..
And I do hate the intomki servers :)
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