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  1. Re:Bitch, bitch, moan, moan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Comcast Hinders BitTorrent Traffic
    Connecting to a game server is an explicit event initiated by a human, as is loading a webpage

    I guess Bittorrent clients turn themselves on, huh?

    Any peer-to-peer system that automatically determines what peers to host data services for would qualify.

    When I connect to 'google.com', I could be connecting to one of dozens of servers that host that site. I certainly don't choose which one to connect to- the 'system' 'automatically determines' which one.

    There is probably language to that effect in the contract.

    Nope. If there is, please find it for us:
    http://optonline.net/Article/Terms

    (i) Users may not run any type of server on the system. This includes but is not limited to FTP, IRC, SMTP, POP, HTTP, SOCKS, SQUID, DNS or any multi-user forums;
  2. Wonder With This by __aalnoi707 · · Score: 1 · on Judges Challenge IP Wiretap Rules

    http://www.optonline.net/Cservice/Article?CID=type %3Dreg%26channel%3D68%26article%3D1993853 optimum online has a clause in its terms of service that the internet and the phone service are for entertianment purposes only. So it makes me wonder if this law does happen to pass, does that require all the phone services including the ones for entertianment. regular Land line phones are considered critial utilities. wire taps for that make sense but not the VOIP for entertianment

  3. Re:Cringely's on crack today. by generic-man · · Score: 1 · on Cringely on Blockbuster-iPod Video Distro Plan

    Hicksville is pretty well-served by Optimum Online, the fastest cable modem provider I've ever seen.

  4. OT / Is anyone getting screwed up pages? by pyro_dude · · Score: 1, Interesting · on The Darth Vader Blog


    Slashdot's front page is dessimated by bad advertising or web design. Even after reloading. Does anyone else see this?

  5. They must be joking... by Frisky070802 · · Score: 5, Interesting · on US Broadband ISPs Expect Price Cuts
    I use Cablevision's Optimum Online at home. The performance ain't bad, but the price is anything but optimal. It started at $30/month, increased to $40 after a few months, and then to $45. This is in keeping with the full menu of Cablevision services, since with my digital cable package, for a few TVs, I pay over $120/month.

    My employer subsidizes up to $30/month for online access, so the cable internet cost isn't as painful as it otherwise would be. But the idea that price wars with the CLECs would drive cable internet prices down seems ludicrous, at least in this market (NJ).

    Heck, considering that when I moved to my current house (end of 1998), Cablevision promised broadband within 6 months, and kept making that promise every few months for 2 years, I was grateful to have broadband in the first place! And that's what they must count on. Competition from another cable company, if not Verizon, would be nice. But the market tanked just as a competitor was considering jumping in.

  6. Re:15 first posts by CableModemSniper · · Score: 1 · on Fast CD-R Drives Make For Twice the Piracy

    I dunno about anyone else but I quite often get speeds over 1.5Mbps with my cable connection. I feel dirty all of a sudden.

  7. But do they warn you in the AUP? by droopus · · Score: 5, Insightful · on Uncap Your Modem, Get Visit From the FBI

    Here's a question: I just read my Cablevision AUP for the cable modem service I've bought from them since 1996. Now, I OWN my cable modems (I have four) that I bought from the Wiz to replace the LanCity (after that, Terayon) modems I rented from Cablevision.

    Nowhere in this agreement does it say " you may not modify your hardware to squeeze more bandwidth out of us." The ads constantly promise "up to 100 times a 56k modem" but nowhere in the agreement does it prevent "optimization of your own gear to increase throughput efficiency" or any such language.

    In fact, I don't see anything about uncapping or hardware modification at all.

    There ARE stringent rules about reselling the service, running any kind of server, and warnings that routers and home LANs are NOT supported, but nothing saying "altering your own hardware to increase bandwith" is proscribed.

    There are rules about "tampering wih the Optimum Online Service" but it would be a far stretch to say that includes optimizing your own equipment.

    And even if this was the interpretation, where is the statement that this violates anything but an AUP, which would be at most a civil infraction.

    How does this become a Federal crime?

  8. Great Neck, Long Island by KuRL · · Score: 1 · on A Study on Regional DSL and Cable Speeds?

    Here, with Optimum Online cable, I max out at about 3.2 Mbps, but more realistic speeds are about 1.5-2 Mbps. I'll deal ;)