[wplug] laugh

[esw148 at psu.edu]

heh, that's just to test to see if your computer can connect directly to 
their service using pppoe.  If you use the router, it doesn't matter what 
your computer has.  They tried telling me that it wouldn't work with linux.. 
as it happens, i'm using a linux router to connect directly to their service 
with no problem.

About the servers, they do say that you may not run servers, and they also 
block port 80 to prevent you from running a web server on that port, 
however, they don't seem too strict about it.  I have a web server running 
on FIOS using a different port, as well as a mail server, ftp server, and 
ssh access. They've been running for a while now (i think a little less than 
a year)  with no problems.

Eric


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zach" <netrek at gmail.com>
To: "General user list" <wplug at wplug.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 5:35 PM
Subject: [wplug] laugh


> Clicked Verizon's FiOS "Check my computer" page to test requirements.
> I am not gonna go with FiOS cause they seem very explicitly against
> users running servers but I tried the test just for kicks and it says:
>
> "The functionality you are trying to access requires Internet Explorer
> version 6 or higher. You are currently using a browser that's not
> supported. Please use Internet Explorer, version 6 or higher, to
> access this functionality."
>
> I use Firefox 2.0.0.1 :)
>
> Zach
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