[c-nsp] ComCast

[Jason Philbrook]

I don't see a problem (other than the UNI-P influence).

Higher cable prices means more opportunities and flexibility for other
forms of broadband to gain a foothold. You want the customers, but 
really don't want to depend on their plant.

On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 01:55:08AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> 
> They probably finally got around to updating the switches on his
> segment..
> 
> He's probably running Windows.  He needs to get some real operating
> systems that obfuscate the IPid field.  Good shoices are OpenBSD and
> FreeBSD.  Some Solaris versions also do this to a certain extent.
> 
> A paper on determining the NATTed hosts was published a few years
> ago here:
> 
> http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/papers/fnat.pdf
> 
> See http://www.ntop.org for more info on how you access agents on
> switches that can do this.
> 
> I frankly have zero sympathy for your employee and I doubt many
> people on this list do either.  The cable providers are assholes who
> haven't let any other ISP's access to their network, and in fact it
> was lawsuits over them doing this that destroyed UNI-p last year and has
> made costs for a whole lot of people get a lot more expensive.   Some
> clecs will probably go bank-o as a result of it.  The more cable
> customers
> finally wise up to what assholes the cable providers are, and go back
> to the DSL providers, the happier I and a lot of people are gonna be.
> 
> Merry Christmas from your cable provider.  Oh by the way, before I
> forget to mention, tell your employee to use Vaseline before he
> bends over to get "serviced" by his cable provider - since they are
> going to stick it to him again for more money this year, see:
> 
> http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051203/BIZ/512030371/
> 1001
> 
> It will make it feel a bit better.
> 
> Ted
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
> >[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net]On Behalf Of Voll, Scott
> >Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 9:51 AM
> >To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> >Subject: [c-nsp] ComCast
> >
> >
> >I have an employee that uses ComCast Cable and recently has run into a
> >little problem.
> >
> >
> >
> >He has ComCast High Speed Internet with a little FW.  If he has one PC
> >no problem but if he plugs in a second PC it slows to a crawl.  Both PC
> >work great individually either from the ComCast Cable or behind the FW.
> >He as also switched out Three different FWs.  All have the same issue.
> >
> >
> >
> >He did some searching and he's not the only one having this issue.
> >
> >
> >
> >How is ComCast seeing weather they have one or more computers behind a
> >FW.  The whole purpose of a FW is to hid everything.
> >
> >
> >
> >ComCast wants to sell him the home networking package to take care of
> >this.  He didn't have this issue previous to Christmas.
> >
> >
> >
> >Any ideas?
> >
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