At 12:23 PM 10/4/2007, Howard Winter writes:
 >Herbert,
 >
 >On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:43:10 -0400, Herbert Graf writes:
 >
 >> [snip]
 >>
 >> Personally I think it's bollucks: I should be able to do whatever I want
 >> with my connection, but that's just my opinion. And there are often ways
 >> around it, I just run my servers on non standard ports.
 >
 >Me too, that's why I am with an ISP that allows you to do anything you
 >like with the line - they positively encourage you to run your own
 >servers if that's what you
 >want to do (they provide tech.support on how to do it).  They're a bit
 >more expensive than the mass market, bargain-basement,
 >call-centre-in-Bangalore ISPs, but
 >worth every penny, IMHO.
 >
 >They're in England, of course, but I'd have thought there were similar
 >ones in the USA.   Aren't there?
 >


There is at least one such provider here in the US.  Speakeasy 
explicitly permits running servers, and with some service plans also 
allow (wired or wireless) connection sharing and/or reselling.  The 
also provide shell access for those who care.  I had a DSL account 
with them for several years and was happy with their service 
including being able to purchase additional upstream bandwidth to 
support the servers that we ran.

If I could get any DSL service where I now live, they'd be at the top 
of my list although is does give me pause that they were recently 
acquired by Best Buy.  Their current terms of service agree with what 
I write above.

<http://www.speakeasy.net/tos/>

Their speed test page is handy too:  <http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/>.

-- Alan

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