[NTLUG:Discuss] OT: Introduction and Recommendations

[Wayne Dahl]

Greg Edwards wrote:
> Chris Cox wrote:
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>> With Verizon you can get FiOS (if you like mega, ultra high speed),
>> but you need to live in a Verizon neighborhood (it's fibre to the premise).
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>> FiOS sounds fantastic... might be a good reason to move into
>> a neighborhood serviced by Verizon (rumors aside).
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> FIOS sounds good, but!!  The only way that you can use it (in my local) 
> is to sign up for Verizon's ISP, which is MSN.  Running your own servers 
> is out of the question with their setup.  I don't know anyone that has 
> been able to run mail or web servers with this connection.
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Verizon internet runs on its own backbone, not on MSN.  Verizon has its 
own ISP, based on the old GTE Internet.  MSN is a portal partner, as is 
Yahoo and AOL.  Those customers used to having those services will still 
have them AS A PARTNER, but not as the backbone.

I work for Verizon in the FiOS group.  Verizon DOES block port 80 and 
maybe port 22 (although I'm not sure about email) on residential data 
accounts, so you can't run a server on residential.  If you want to run 
a server on at least port 80, you're forced to pay for a business data 
account.  This doesn't stop you from running a web server on a 
residential account, you'd just have to specify a different port in the 
domain name on the URL and activate port forwarding on your router from 
that port to port 80 for your server.  BTW, this is true for FiOS AND 
DSL accounts on VOL (Verizon OnLine).

Wayne