[67707] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Clueless service restrictions (was RE: Anti-spam System Idea)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Tue Feb 17 19:01:59 2004
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 18:59:20 -0500 (EST)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
To: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
Cc: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, Tony Hain <alh-ietf@tndh.net>,
<nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <87fzd9490z.fsf@valhalla.seastrom.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 17 Feb 2004, Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
> Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> writes:
>
> > and, if you want to see a particularly broken example, buy "internet
> > service" from t-mobile gprs in the states, port 22 blocked, no smtp relay,
> > ... "walled garden" mentality from the get go.
>
> Strangely enough, the only complaints I've heard about t-mob GPRS (aside from
> whininess about the 800ms latency typical of GPRS) involved a protracted
> effort, eventually successful, to get them to understand that having
> *something*, *anything* in the in-addr.arpa for their address pool was a Good
> Plan... and that was a year or two ago.
whilst in miami i found roaming onto t-mobile to be less than useless (att was
barely any better altho i could dial on att). gprs on both networks was slow and
kicked me after a couple minutes of being connected, however i could ssh albeit
briefly!
Steve
