[TriLUG] About time-warner broadband

[Andy Barnhart]

One of their techs told me that they pretty much only change the IP for a
reason (activity that makes them suspect you are running a server) because
so many people have routers and intelligent devices that there is almost
never a time that there is no outgoing connection established. According to
him, they really do try not to break connections because people will
complain (rightly so, IMO). I remember the old days when downloading
something really large was almost impossible because it might take longer
than the window between resets.


On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 12:23 PM, William Sutton <william at trilug.org> wrote:

> I never talked TWC into a static IP, but $WORK paid for a business class
> connection for me for about 2 years.  after I moved on, my account went
> back to residential class, but my IP stuck.  Of course, that was 10 years
> ago... things have probably changed.
>
> William Sutton
>
>
> On Mon, 8 Apr 2013, David Burton wrote:
>
>  I don't know that T-W blocks any ports, but most big mailservers block
>> SMTP
>> (port 25) from mailservers on dynamic IPs, by checking reverse DNS, or by
>> checking sorbs and/or spamhaus:
>> http://whatismyipaddress.com/**blacklist/spamhaus<http://whatismyipaddress.com/blacklist/spamhaus>
>>
>> To check your IP, see:
>> http://whatismyipaddress.com/**blacklist-check<http://whatismyipaddress.com/blacklist-check>
>> and http://remote.12dt.com/
>>
>> My Time-Warner residential IP (which is "dynamic" but hasn't actually
>> changed in many months) is blacklisted on:
>>
>> dnsbl.sorbs.net
>> dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net
>> pbl.spamhaus.org
>> zen.spamhaus.org
>> dyn.shlink.org
>>
>> How does your T-W Business Class compare w/r/ to the block-lists?  (And do
>> you have the static IP option?)
>>
>> BTW, has anyone talked T-W into selling them a static IP for Residential
>> Class service?
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>> ...
>>>
>>>
>>
>>  Since I have cable in place and no land line phone service, I will
>>>> probably go with Time Warner Broadband residential service.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>> That's almost certainly your best bet, if AT&T U-Verse isn't available.
>> Not satellite, that's for sure!
>>
>> However, you can probably get AT&T DSL (current promotional rate $15/mo)
>> even *without* land-line voice service.  Once upon a time they wouldn't
>> sell you DSL w/o a voice line, but that changed some years ago.
>>
>> Dave
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