VPN Clients Not Allowed On Residential Service

wayn3 writes "ComputerWorld reports here that two of the major cable companies have language in their terms of service that VPN clients are forbidden for "residential" class, forcing clients on their "business" offering which is at twice or more times the cost of residential service. Has any been bit by this, and do those companies consider SSH a VPN client? This would stop me from telecommuting since my company would not be able to afford the business service."

Comments

Are you kidding me?

[MicroBerto]

This would stop me from telecommuting...

Huh?? You actually follow the rules?!

gee, thanks ass.

[Erris]

People really need to vote with their feet, and stop agreeing to put on their Internet provider's straightjackets.

I'd love to dump my port 80 and 25 blocked cable "provider".

My alternatives? DSL? No, they all get screwed by the local Bell which has no interest in anything but owning it all and making sure it never ever competes with it's telco services. Dial up? Sure I could step down like that to someone else being bullied by large ISPs. I wold get to pay more for less that way.

The two real alternatives are to do what I want anyway and to agitate for reasonable regulation of telco services. If the local cable company wants to do without my $50/month, that's their problem. I'm not going to be hogging up the bandwith with anything stupid like M$ whole desktop exported as a bitmap trash, or "Planet of the Apes". If they chose to toss me off for sharing baby pictures over ftp or port forwarded http, I'll have more time and motivation for agitating.