[Gllug] On a Fasthost adv.

[Richard Jones]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 06:59:24PM +0000, Caroline Ford wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 12:34 +0000, Ryan Cartwright wrote:
> 
> > 
> > One friend is furious that his ISP has advertised up to 8mb and the best
> > he can get (because of his line apparently) is just over 1Mb. Another
> > has realised that his "unlimited" bandwidth (for which he pays extra) is
> > actually limited to 40GB and by restrictions on particular
> > ports/services. The Gadget show campaign can - if nothing else - raise
> > awareness of the false-advertising carried out by many ISPs.
> 
> T Mobile has 3 different levels of unlimited service with different
> prices. 40GB isn't too bad, I have 'unlimited' of 3GB here.
> 
> Blocked ports are a major issue, and filtering. There seems to be no way
> of finding out what you are going to get until you've signed up. You can
> be cautious and pay extra for a geek friendly ISP or suffer the risk
> that your ISP will wish to 'protect you' from loads of stuff like IRC..

Best bet is probably to tunnel your IRC / other blocked connections
through any ssh server that you have access to.  By adding lots of
'LocalForward' commands into your .ssh/config you can make this
relatively painless, eg:

  Host foo.example.com           # public ssh server
    LocalForward 6667:chat.freenode.net:6667    # forward IRC

You can even do full-on tunnelling of all network connections with ssh
using the 'Tunnel' command (although I've not used it).

This assumes they allow ssh.  I wouldn't even consider an internet
connection which didn't allow ssh ...

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat
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