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Cable Co's Want More Control Over Your Network

Posted by timothy on from the but-of-course dept.

Moonshine Coward writes: "'The CAT and the NAT' in latest issue of www.cedmagazine.com discusses Cable labs and their efforts to come up with a 'better' protocol than NAT that allows them more control over devices behind your cable modem. Their upside on this...$4.95 per IP per mth. Their #1 concern...people putting in 802.11b hubs and sharing with their neighbors. Fine in principle and if it gets them drooling enough to speed up the deployment of fiber to the home it might be a good thing. However I can see way too many downsides...not least of which is being nickled and dimed to death..my webcam, cable ready microwave, refrigerator, pictureframe that shows revolving jif's ... each costing me $4.95 p.m. -- all on top of regular $39.95 cost." Note: the article is written from an interesting point of view -- it's aimed at the people who want to collect the additional per-IP charges.

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  1. BUTTSEX by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. 100 mb/s by K0R$+h4x0r+ru1z · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  4. great story! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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