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[_] ADSL providers with open ports

Dave Hodgkinson davehodg at gmail.com
Tue Feb 27 15:58:48 GMT 2007

On 27 Feb 2007, at 14:15, Neil Fraser wrote:

> Zen (expensive but good),

Yes.

> PlusNET (cheap, mostly good),

No. Gone majorly downhill, billing now a nightmare, quality slipping.

> Telewest (personally
> use them at home).

I've just fired NTL at my flat in London. Not jsut the fact the line
never worked, but the sheer ineptness of their customer service.

I now use one of these as my interweb connections:

http://davehodg.blogspot.com/2007/02/vodafone-3g-usb-modem.html

And yes, skype appears to work well over it!

(Doesn't solve your incoming issues as it's pretty well NATted inside
Voda;s network, but I *can* PPTP out to another LAN happily)



> You'll have to check but I've not found any blocked ports
> on any of them yet...
>
> HTH
>
> Neil
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Alex Stanhope [mailto:listalex at lightenna.com]
>> Sent: 27 February 2007 11:20
>> To: underscore at under-score.org.uk
>> Subject: [_] ADSL providers with open ports
>>
>>
>> Mornin',
>>
>> I'm looking for a residential ADSL provider who allows
>> incoming connections to VPN-type ports, namely SSH (22), L2TP
>> (1702) and PPTP (1723).
>>
>> I'm with UK Online at the moment, who've been good but lock
>> everything up although I've managed to setup a
>> somewhat-shakey outbound VPN connection using UPnP.  Need
>> something more reliable and bidirectional now.
>>
>> Any recommendations appreciated.
>>
>> Cheers, Alex
>>
>> Alex Stanhope
>> Lightenna Ltd.
>> 0117 929 1032
>> http://www.lightenna.com
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