[H-GEN] ADSL/capping

[Craig Holyoak]

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On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Frank Brand wrote:
> I have never seen Telstra take action against home networks (eg via proxy
> server) but I understand they take quite a different course if you try to
> connect a server and provide commercial services from it. They have totally
> different rates for such commercial.

How does Telstra define 'commercial'? Is it considered commercial for me
to run my personal website on my machine? Is it commercial to allow ssh
connections so I can check my email remotely?

I totally agree that connections should be charged on bandwidth alone,
regardless of the number of users and whether I run any services (albeit
personal) on my box. I think it's unfair to have to pay commercial rates
if all I want to do is host a personal website which would be lucky to
make a handful of hits each day.

Craig

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