On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Dean E. <dean at ripperd2.dhs.org> wrote: > That's BS. I PAY for my bandwidth, so i can do what I please with the > bandwidth I bought. Well, isn't this the fundamental difference between cable and DSL? With DSL you are paying a fixed cost for a fixed amount of bandwidth, so I suspect they don't care. My understanding with cable is that you're paying a fixed cost for bandwidth that can burst far above what the provider could support, if everyone was doing it at once; thus their different TOS. I think the cable companies are worried about free hot spots blowing their business model. -- Brent J. Nordquist <brent at nordist.net> N0BJN (unable to get DSL, unwilling to get cable modem) Other contact information: http://www.nordist.net/contact.html