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From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 14:20:23 -0500
------ Forwarded Message From: Steven Cherry <s.cherry () ieee org> Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 14:18:57 -0500 To: farber () cis upenn edu Subject: Pesky Home Networks Trouble Cable Behemoths Dave, This article from the April issue of IEEE Spectrum is now available. Steven <http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/resource/apr02/webs.html> Pesky Home Networks Trouble Cable Behemoths Are wireless router users stealing broadband Internet access? By Steven M. Cherry, Senior Associate Editor The convergence of two cultural landmasses, the Internet and home entertainment, will produce mountains of new content, proponents say. But wherever tectonic plates collide, there are also violent earthquakes and volcanoes. It's happened before with sharing content, a la Napster. The latest eruption is over sharing access itself, specifically sharing broadband cable access with the IEEE 802.11b wireless standard. At issue is an obscure protocol from 1994, network address translation (NAT), which allows several computers to share a single Internet address. In January, readers of Slashdot, a global message board for network administrators, were shocked by a report that Comcast Corp. (Philadelphia), the largest broadband Internet provider in the United States, considered home networkers to be "abusers" of its cable Internet service and was "eradicating" anyone using NAT. Comcast has denied throwing customers off its service, but hasn't entirely repudiated the characterization of abuse. With broadband access increasing rapidly-it approximately doubled in 2001 in the United States-the issue will undoubtedly plague broadband providers in the months to come. <etc.> -- Steven Cherry, +1 212-419-7566 Senior Associate Editor IEEE Spectrum, 3 Park Ave, New York, NY 10016 <s.cherry () ieee org> <http://www.spectrum.ieee.org> ------ End of Forwarded Message For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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