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I run an FTP server on a linux box, for personal use(sharing files between home and office mostly). A few weeks ago I tried connecting to it from work, it took about 2 minutes for the login text to pop up. When I finally managed to log-in and tried getting a file, the throughput speed was just under 0.1 KB/s =/. When I got home I tried doing just some regular surfing, and it was fine, normal speeds on uploading too.
At first I thought it could be that my linky router was mis' behavin so I took the linux box and plugged it directly into the modem and had a friend attempt a connection with the same results. I tried setting up FTP server on a different machine, different external IP also with the same results. And as I said gaming/surfing/uploading worked as good as before from all machines whether or not behind the linky router. So I am wondering, did the put some sort of blocker in to prevent people from hosting servers? BTW it's the same for all servers/ports as I tried connecting to a web and telnet server also running on that box.
I know, I stated this in my post. I wasn't asking for comments on it's 'legality'. Just did they do something or not to somehow block servers in general.
Ok thank you, that's what I wanted to hear... BTW I hope you didn't take my previous comment the wrong way. This is really weird... anyone else run a server of some sort with Comcast? Any difficulties lately?
