I have 8 jetstream and 1 jetstart connections with World-net, and I have had
no problems at all with them over the last 14 months. Apart from the fact
that they speak very little english! Email is the only way to deal with
them, on the phone they are impossible!

Also their pricing is better than any other ISP, they give static ip's free,
and they changed the reverse resolve on all my static ip's to reflect the
FQDN that I have allocated each ip!
e.g. Our napier branch has FQDN of napier.firesecurity.co.nz , ip
210.55.228.219
The reverse lookup of that ip is napier.firesecurity.co.nz rather than
adsl-219.world-net.co.nz as it used to be. And all this is for free.

-----Original Message-----
From: David McNab [mailto:david@rebirthing.co.nz]
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 16:19
To: adsl@unixathome.org
Subject: Other ISPs permit servers

> > Apparently, Xtra's rule against running a server only applies to the
> > dial-up accounts. No mention of it in JetStream/JetStart accounts.

> http://www.xtrasite.co.nz/jetstart/terms.html

Oops - my apologies - I missed that completely on the Xtra site.
I stand corrected.

Anyway, I spoke to an Xtra Public Relations rep, Mary Parker,
who agreed to be quoted as saying that:

"Xtra offers JetStart as a 'consumer product'.
"Xtra views the running of internet servers (such as web, ftp etc)
as an inherently 'commercial activity', and not within the scope of a
'residential product' such as JetStart." Ms. Parker pointed out that this
policy is not necessarily permanent.

(my interpretation of this is that Xtra sells server products eg web
hosting,
and perceives personal servers as 'competition').

Meanwhile, I've been combing through fine print of other ISPs supporting
JetStart/JetStream.

>From what I can see, Inspire.net bans spam and any law-breaking traffic, but
have no rule against servers.

Also, World-net have confirmed with me that they allow unlimited traffic,
and have no problems with people running servers. They only oppose "Abuse of
the service e.g. sending Spam, Hacking". Lastly, World-net are $5/month
cheaper than Xtra.

It looks I'll be 'defecting' to World-Net.

Cheers
David

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