broadband cable throughput quality

[david poehlman]

All I know is that I cannot reach any server I put on my box through my ip.

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Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2004 6:26 PM
Subject: Re: broadband cable throughput quality


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that's weird. does comcast actually block any ports? last time I
checked it didn't. though maybe it's different depending on what area
you are in.
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 05:38:24PM -0400, david poehlman
wrote:
> In the years I have been on cable, I've never gotten good upload speeds.
> They don't want to encourage server usage on their systems so they block
the
> upload.  As far as neighbors, when comcast took over as our service
> providor, and improved the network, I experienced a dramatic increase in
the
> quality of the connection no matter what the time of day or day of the
week.
> Any issues I now have with through put as far as download is concerned is
> with slow or busy servers.  I have had some other issues, but they have
been
> attributable to a server being down or to a comcast outage.  I really hate
> the 45k max uploads I get though and I also resent that I cannot use a
> server on my pc and have it reached from the outside world.  This is
> especially bad for things like streaming media which I have the power to
do
> but which does no good since no one can get to it because comcast blocks
the
> ports.
>
>
>
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