Board:   [fsxNet] Retro Computing
Subject: Re: old inet = your own D
From:    boraxman (21:1/101)
Date:    Wed Oct 28, 2026 09:44

-=> Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 Ni>   Re: Re: old inet = your own DNS?
 Ni>   By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Sun Oct 25 2026 09:56 am

 PF> Remember, this started at a time when Xfinity was trying to figure out a
 PF> way to charge by the client computer. They wanted to move you to a
 PF> business account or figure out a way to charge more if you had lots of
 PF> clients behind their firewall. You'd call in for support, one of the first
 PF> questions was how many client PCs you had.

 PF> That was when I got my first firewall - a WRT54G, and started playing with
 PF> third-party OSes. Set my modem into bridge mode and told them I had one
 PF> client - my firewall.

 Ni> I remember ISPs wanting to do that. When we first got broadband
 Ni> internet in 2002, I bought a router to share internet, and I heard ISPs
 Ni> technically didn't like customers doing that because they wanted to
 Ni> charge per computer. The service tech who set up service at our house
 Ni> didn't mention anything about it though.

 Ni> A friend of mine also had broadband internet, and he used a switch
 Ni> (rather than a router/firewall) to connect his computers, and he said
 Ni> the ISP started charging him per computer connected to their service.

Is this an American thing?

I never remember hearing about this being an issue in Australia. Maybe some of
our large telcos did, but the smaller ones, like the one I was with couldn't
give a toss.  Same with hosting your own servers, as long as you didn't run a
business from your residential connection they didn't care if you had a web
server etc.  I've seen in the US you have to be careful.

In fact, the ISP I'm with now, is geared towards techies and they actually
acknowledge that people will run their own servers, and that they are a good
option for such customers.


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