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Re: wtf? comcast asked us not to use VPN said by quatrix:And making you get a more expensive account to use VPN is about as much extortion as the water company shutting off my service for not paying the bill. They provide a service under their conditions, and you can pay for it or not. Logging into work from home is a very common thing these days, so I'm sorry but I have to disagree. How does logging into a VPN to catch up on some work affect Comcast's network? If a few KB/s to keep the VPN tunnel alive is taxing their network so much, they have serious problems.
There is no legitimate reason why a residential customer shouldn't be able to connect to their place of work. They're not serving anything, they're not selling anything on the connection. They're simply logging into work remotely to be more productive in their job.
I'd love to hear a reasonable justification for this policy. I can't think of a single good reason for not allowing VPN. Yes, Comcast can do whatever they want with their network/service. And people can chose not to use the service or go elsewhere. That doesn't mean it's a justified policy. The only fathomable reason I can think of is to sucker people that work from home into forking over twice as much money to Comcast.
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