[TriLUG] About time-warner broadband

[James Jones]

Matt,

Thanks for the info.

Your thought of using vpn tunnel sounds interesting. Something I know
very little about. I will investigate that as well.

jcj

On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 10:03 AM,  <matt at noway2.thruhere.net> wrote:
> I am planning on doing the exact same thing in June is up with TWC-BC,
> entirely for the purpose of saving money.
>
> I am not aware of TWC residential blocking any ports, at least they didn't
> used to but residential spam bots have become such a ubiquitous problem
> that blocking port 25 brings a lot of protection without inconvenience for
>>99.999% of their customers.
>
> My thought was to create a VPN tunnel between my home machine(s) and the
> front end hosted server, effectively making the hosted system part of the
> local net while encrypting the traffic and avoiding port blocking.
>
>
>> All,
>>
>> I have moved all my important websites to an amazon server instance. I
>> am closing my time-warner business class internet service account and
>> hoping to sign up with a lesser expensive isp. I live in Wendell, NC (
>> 27591 ). It appears that my options are Time Warner broadband
>> residential service, AT&T dsl, and DishNet internet via satellite.
>>
>> Since I have cable in place and no land line phone service, I will
>> probably go with Time Warner Broadband residential service.
>>
>> Is there any known blocked ports on that service?
>>
>> I do want to be able to access my home computer from remote locations
>> and not necessarily on port 22.
>>
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