On 12/7/05, Siddhesh Poyarekar siddhesh.poyarekar@gmail.com wrote:
What is sick about the ISPs (especially broadband) is that they charge a bomb for their service and give only the basic facility -- web browsing. Sify blocks Usenet services, disallows you from hosting anything at all, no web server, no ssh server, no ftp.
I agree!
And they refuse us all these services saying that they're protecting us from
malicious programs. They're catering to novice users of the internet and at the same time suffocating those who wish to really use their services to the fullest.
That is true in a sense, because all internet traffic including malicious attacks are handled by the ISP servers themselves. You dont have to worry about anyone accessing your machine from the outside world. Though, it might be necessary for some people like us to have the previlege to use extra benefits than just surfing.
The question is can we do something about this or is this fair and adequate
service that they're providing us?
I guess, as of now all we can do is think, research and decide upon an ISP which matches our needs perfectly. As far as I am concerned, I am trying to get my Tata Indicom connection back and will try out other ISP's like Pacenet, Exatt which provide dynamic IP's over PPPOE connections. Though these will be just as a backup.
-- Regards, Sanket Medhi.