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> It would be more worth while to figure out if you were using their
service for a >business i.e. making money off it (assuming you have
residential service) than to >bust you for running NAT for personal
satisfaction (I could be wrong). If you
> are worried about this then get a different ISP who likes NAT.
From the perspective of ISP's you are 100% correct in this. In fact, most
ISP's don't even care if you use personal service for business. Most I know
are very liberal in their policies. We have lots of people running home
businesses off of personal accounts. The hope is that they will continue on
with us when they need full service business accounts. Plus, there is
generally an "out" somewhere in the TOS that allows an ISP to up
re-negotiate the contract if all of a sudden you are consuming "unreasonble"
amounts of bandwidth for sustained periods. When that happens most of the
time it is some kid running a porn site. However when it is NOT a porn
site, 9 times out of 10 the ISP cuts a deal with customers with popular
sites to do banner ads as an exchange for excess bandwidth useage. Everyone
wins that way.
What gets us (ISPs) is when a company with 50 employees at an office
location orders residential DSL service, or when someone who installs
residential DSL service in their home all of a sudden is providing
commercial domain based web hosting from their $59.00 a month account.
This is not just the Internet, it just seems that there is a certain
percentage of people out there who feel that the world owes them a free
ride.
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