Optimum Online Boost - Webserver bandwidth CAPPED!

Optimum Online Boost - Webserver bandwidth CAPPED!

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Optimum Online Boost - Webserver bandwidth CAPPED! mike 03-16-2006
Posted by Cyrus Afzali on March 24, 2006, 5:40 pm
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>Beware if you attempt to run a webserver on Optimum Online's new BOOST
>service. Although OOL allows you to run your own website on port 80
>(it's not blocked), they CAP BANDWIDTH at 128 kpbs...so don't think
>about running anything more than a VERY basic site. Other ports aren't
>capped and run closer to 700-900 kpbs.

Nobody allows you to run a Web server on anything but a business-class
plan. You want business class service at consumer grade prices.
>
>Of course, none of their advertisements mention this...but trust me,
>it's true. A tech support guy just confirmed it to me after I sent him
>several network logs.

It's in the terms of service for Cablevision and most every cable
provider on the planet.
>
>OUTRAGEOUS!
>
>
Not hardly.

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