captainAmazing
@swbell.ne
| Austin RoadRunner and Earthlink Cable Questions
I have a few questions for subscribers of Earthlink Cable and Time Warner RoadRunner here in Austin:
Do either of these providers explicitly block ports?
Are they still running port scans on subscribers to identify servers?
What IP lease times are people seeing on Earthlink cable?
Has anyone seen strange behavior that suggests that traffic on some ports is purposefully being sabotaged to discourage the use of some types of software?
When I shell out $50 a month for internet access I expect to be able to run a low bandwidth FTP for my own use, VPN connections, P2P apps (Kazaa, Gnutella, eDonkey), SSH to my machines, and a low bandwidth personal webserver. Is anyone having trouble doing any of this stuff over cable here in Austin?
I've been a happy SBC DSL for over a year but I recently began having serious reliability problems. Six outages during a two and a half hour period yesterday afternoon...
SBC tech support claims that they "can't" do anything for me until I dismantle my home network and connect a single machine running Windows and their PPPoE software. Install windows just to troubleshoot my flaky DSL??? Time to switch broadband providers! : )
Thanks for reading. |
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brainplug
join:2000-04-10
Austin, TX
| i am use RR but not through earthlink. They do port scan. the way did i set up the ftp site is using different port than 21 since i think is the main one they scan. you should check their polocy. They would state what their rule are. I know for sure you cannot run a webserver unless you change the port from 80 to something else. i am run a local web server for php testing. |
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robbin
Premium,MVM
join:2000-09-21
Leander, TX
| reply to captainAmazing
I don't use Roadrunner either. However, everything you are asking for is allowed with my Covad TeleSOHO 1.5/384 account ($70 per month). It's considered a business account and includes a static (fixed) IP. More IPs are available for a slight increase in $. I have been very happy with the service, with the exception that their usenet is pretty poor. |
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