[_] 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 >> -- >> underscore_ list info/archive -> http://www.under-score.org.uk >> > > > -- > underscore_ list info/archive -> http://www.under-score.org.uk -- Dave Hodgkinson - Music photography http://www.davehodgkinson.com/