[IP] more on One cable company to rule them all

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

From: Steven Cherry <s.cherry@ieee.org>

Dave, this is, after all, the same Comcast that initially discouraged 
customers from using Wi-Fi. They were equally vague about what was allowed 
and not allowed.

From an April 2002 article about that ("Pesky Home Networks Trouble Cable 
Behemoths" <http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/resource/apr02/webs.html>):

"While Comcast neither supports nor prohibits NATs, it has said that users 
who knowingly let people outside their households use their Internet 
connectivity are violating their terms of service. Comcast's position 
leaves unclear the status of the many NAT users who don't actively make 
their networks available to others, but don't put up firewall fences, either."

 Steven 

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