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Interesting: one of the redditors posted a limkmtomspectrum’s TOS; clause j explicitly forbids you to ssh to another host or using a VPN and also forbids you from from running a program like Speedtest.

Check for yourself: https://www.spectrum.com/policies/internet-use-policy

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Interesting! Loads for me.

The clause in question is the following:

> j. Either of the following activities by a Subscriber using dedicated machines (also known as "machines" or "dedicated servers") or virtual dedicated servers (also known as "VDS", "VPS", "virtual machines", and/or "virtual servers"): (i) running a tunnel or proxy to a server at another host or (ii) hosting, storing, proxy, or use of a network testing utility or denial of service (DoS/DDoS) tool in any capacity.

Heh....I have a “dedicated machine” (XBox) that connects using an encrypted “tunnel” (SSL) to “a server at another host” (Fortnite) and also employs a “network testing utility” (ping to check latency to find the best game to connect to).

I’d love to see a lawyer rips this contract section to shreds.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210410184412/https://www.spect...

The way I read that isn’t that your forbidden from doing any of those things. Your forbidden from doing those things with a dedicated machine (i.e server). Like you are forbidden to make your personal server a node for a speed test for others.

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