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Old 04-18-2007, 12:24 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Anexkahn
Also, on another note, it sounds like you are in a multi tenant building and looking to share your internets with the other occupants. You may want to check your Terms of Service with whatever ISP you are using and make sure that it allows for connection sharing, if this is indeed what you are doing. Sometimes you need to upgrade to the "business" class of service to have this be allowed. There is really no technical way for the ISP to find out if you are sharing your bandwidth when you're behind a nat firewall, but it is worth looking into because if for some reason they are an ISP who doesn't like this sort of thing, it sucks to get shutoff -- and some providers will refuse to sell you service again for upwards of 12 months after a disconnect like this which is a huge problem if you are in an area where your options of ISP are limited.

As an aside to this, sharing a network with other people can be personally dangerous. If YOU are the one paying for the service, then YOU are the one responsable for following the ISP's Terms of Service. So if your neighbor is illegally downloading movies and music, and the ISP finds out, guess who gets arrested?...the person who is the OWNER of the account, because the I.P. address of the violation stops at YOUR router.....so ALWAYS be careful when you are sharing an internet service.
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