They have a $9.95 package to do what, five?, hosts.  But I think that sets
up their "gateway" (modem) as a firewall/router.  I don't get the
impression that they'd care much if you did NAT.  Anyone know for sure?

On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Jason DeStefano wrote:

> I'm signing up (funny they will give me DSL service but Qwaste wont).
> I'm sick of DHCP and my cable modem (although the speed is not bad).
> Some negatives for Telocity is that the rep i talked to said that they
> dont offer static subnets, only 1 static, the rest DHCP (I can *live* with
> that over DHCP-only with time warner). They also only offer "one level of
> service" so i was told so there currently is no "business service" for
> the power user. But i dont really need that for now either. Being able
> to run my own ftp server for friends is nice (of course i wasnt with
> road-runner....hehe). I'll let you all know my experience once I have
> the service.
> 
> Jason
> 
> At 05:19 PM 4/10/01 -0500, you wrote:
> >It does look like they "get it."  I just read their terms of service, and
> >even those are reasonable -- they won't allow you to do mass e-mailing
> >(spam) -- Cool!  They also won't let you use residential service for
> >commercial purposes, i.e., don't run the ordering
> >system for iHouseOfPancakes.com at home -- though I bet if they caught you
> >they'd just make you upgrade to business services.  Hardware's
> >free.  Pretty cool.  Keep us posted, Nate, eh?
> >
> >On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Simeon Johnston wrote:
> >
> >> I am going to get DSL at home and was wondering if anyone here has used
> >> Telocity?  It looks very interesting.  They say they will basically do
> >> everything for free and charge $50 a month for 768/408 Kbps SDSL (They
> >> "Optimize" the download speed.  That sounds scary ).
> >> They also have a lot of different extras.  5 mail addresses, web space
> >> and address, static IP address, etc, etc, etc.  Even says they support
> >> Linux. : )
> >> Are they any good?
> >> 
> >> http://www.telocity.com/
> >> 
> >> sim
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