• Re: Connection Refused

    From Brokenmind@VERT/TIABBS to Nightfox on Mon Mar 6 15:17:36 2023
    Re: Re: Connection Refused
    By: Nightfox to DaiTengu on Fri Mar 03 2023 09:46 pm

    I know some ISPs block certain ports, but at least since I started running Synchronet in 2007, I haven't had an ISP that blocked port 23 or the other standard ports (except maybe SMTP).

    Nightfox

    I use comcast using a residental account and they do block port 80 , SMPT ports. Like most others I am thankfull i can relay my email though vert. they did however allow you to relay mail though an email address by authenticating with the user name and password but they blocked that also a few years ago

    BrokenMind

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Brokenmind on Mon Mar 6 23:46:31 2023
    Re: Re: Connection Refused
    By: Brokenmind to Nightfox on Mon Mar 06 2023 03:17 pm

    I use comcast using a residental account and they do block port 80 , SMPT ports. Like most others I am thankfull i can relay my email though vert. they did however allow you to relay mail though an email address by authenticating with the user name and password but they blocked that also a few years ago

    I'm not sure about how it is exactly now, but it seems that over the years comcast has several different ways of handling open ports and whether it does bandwidth limiting depending on the region.

    Some people i know have no caps and can do whatever they want. some have horrible experiences with comcast.
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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Brokenmind on Tue Mar 7 08:40:35 2023
    Re: Re: Connection Refused
    By: Brokenmind to Nightfox on Mon Mar 06 2023 03:17 pm

    I use comcast using a residental account and they do block port 80 , SMTP ports. Like most others I am thankfull i can relay my email though vert.

    Interesting.. I used to use Comcast residential, and the only port they blocked was SMTP. Port 80 worked fine at the time.

    Nightfox

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  • From Brokenmind@VERT/TIABBS to MRO on Wed Mar 8 14:14:51 2023
    Re: Re: Connection Refused
    By: MRO to Brokenmind on Mon Mar 06 2023 11:46 pm

    I'm not sure about how it is exactly now, but it seems that over the years comcast has several different ways of handling open ports and whether it does bandwidth limiting depending on the region.

    Some people i know have no caps and can do whatever they want. some have horrible experiences with comcast.

    Comcast has great service in my area but it's been the monopoly in this area since were in a rural area the central pa area , the upper dauphin area about hr north of harrisburg when it comes to cable internet. dial up and DSL frontier have been the only access to the internet expect for satellite service. However frontier is uping there game in are area with a new fiber service however i have not tried it out as of yet. Comcast coustomer service and technical service is a nightmare but there techs that come to your home if need be are great. I have there blast service with around 900 mbps down and around 45mps up which is ok for my needs butt again just useing a residental account also

    BrokenMind

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  • From Brokenmind@VERT/TIABBS to Nightfox on Wed Mar 8 14:18:22 2023
    Re: Re: Connection Refused
    By: Nightfox to Brokenmind on Tue Mar 07 2023 08:40 am

    Interesting.. I used to use Comcast residential, and the only port they blocked was SMTP. Port 80 worked fine at the time.

    Could have been back when you used there ISP but it's been that way for me since they took over Adelphia which was around 13 years or so and could have been your area.

    BrokenMind

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Brokenmind on Wed Mar 8 11:46:58 2023
    Re: Re: Connection Refused
    By: Brokenmind to MRO on Wed Mar 08 2023 02:14 pm

    with around 900 mbps down and around 45mps up which is ok for my needs butt again just useing a residental account also

    Since 2015 I've been using fiber internet, which offers the same speed for both download and upload. Having such a wide gap between download and upload speed seems weird to me now.. With fiber, even if you have speed as high as gigabit, the gigabit speed is both for upload and download.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Nightfox on Wed Mar 8 17:33:07 2023
    Re: Re: Connection Refused
    By: Nightfox to Brokenmind on Wed Mar 08 2023 11:46 am

    Since 2015 I've been using fiber internet, which offers the same speed for both download and upload. Having such a wide gap between download and upload speed seems weird to me now.. With fiber, even if you have speed as high as gigabit, the gigabit speed is both for upload and download.

    i'm in a big city and my upload sucks. it's just how they cap you.
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  • From Carol Shenkenberger@VERT/SHENKS to Tracker1 on Thu Mar 9 11:08:00 2023
    Re: Re: Connection Refused
    By: Tracker1 to Grease on Sat Mar 04 2023 07:30 pm

    Re: Re: Connection Refused
    By: Grease to Tracker1 on Wed Mar 01 2023 17:28:00

    Aside: If you're on a residential (especially cable) internet
    provider connection, many/most providers block common server ports
    from inbound connections. Try a higher/alternate port, such as 2323
    and see if that works instead... you can probably just change the
    port forward in your router to listen on 2323 and forward to the
    host on 23, so you don't need to change the BBS's config.

    Sorry to hijack. I may have this same problem. Port 23 is not letting traffic in. I know all routers are different, but in a generic way, how you do this?

    I'd just use 2323 for telnet, if that was my main interest. In your router, eparately.

    If you are comfortable with Linux, I'd suggest using a VPS host. This is wh grok, which will route an accessible IP to your internal system for use.


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    +o roughneckbbs.com
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    I port forward port 24 to the bbs on port 24 by the internal IP of the bbs machine. 1:275/100. 1:275/1000 is not available from outside, inside only and 'Shenk's Wandering Star' note (tiering with 4 others).

    Works flawlessly.

    xxcarol

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  • From Brokenmind@VERT/TIABBS to Nightfox on Sat Mar 11 11:50:08 2023
    Re: Re: Connection Refused
    By: Nightfox to Brokenmind on Wed Mar 08 2023 11:46 am

    Since 2015 I've been using fiber internet, which offers the same speed for both download and upload. Having such a wide gap between download and upload speed seems weird to me now.. With fiber, even if you have speed as high as gigabit, the gigabit speed is both for upload and download.
    I will have to look into that thank you

    BrokenMind

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Nightfox on Thu Mar 9 06:55:00 2023
    Nightfox wrote to Brokenmind <=-

    Since 2015 I've been using fiber internet, which offers the same speed
    for both download and upload. Having such a wide gap between download
    and upload speed seems weird to me now.. With fiber, even if you have speed as high as gigabit, the gigabit speed is both for upload and download.

    I need to bite the bullet and get fiber. I'm sitting on a couple of
    terabytes of data I'd love to sync with the cloud, but with a bandwidth
    cap and 20 mbps upload speed on cable, it'd be painful.

    Who do you have, and do they have monthly bandwidth caps?





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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Mar 11 20:59:24 2023
    Re: Re: Connection Refused
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Thu Mar 09 2023 06:55 am

    I need to bite the bullet and get fiber. I'm sitting on a couple of terabytes of data I'd love to sync with the cloud, but with a bandwidth cap and 20 mbps upload speed on cable, it'd be painful.

    Who do you have, and do they have monthly bandwidth caps?

    I have Ziply Fiber. As far as I can tell, they don't have any monthly bandwidth caps.
    I'm not sure Ziply Fiber is a widespread ISP though.. From what I've seen, it seems they may be mostly operating in northwest Oregon and in Washington. Ziply took over Frontier Fiber here a few years ago (and Frontier had taken over Verizon Fios here in 2010).

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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to MRO on Sun Apr 9 12:04:00 2023
    Re: Re: Connection Refused
    By: MRO to Nightfox on Wed Mar 08 2023 05:33 pm

    Re: Re: Connection Refused
    By: Nightfox to Brokenmind on Wed Mar 08 2023 11:46 am

    Since 2015 I've been using fiber internet, which offers the same speed fo both download and upload. Having such a wide gap between download and upload speed seems weird to me now.. With fiber, even if you have speed high as gigabit, the gigabit speed is both for upload and download.

    i'm in a big city and my upload sucks. it's just how they cap you.

    This weekend I watched a travel blog to the Maldives, and the country developed a new tourist city by dredging dirt and sand from the ocean and building a new city on it. The big draw is when the city was built, gigabit fiber was ran everywere. In reality the reviewer discovered it is not operational everywhere due to the price the provider charges for gigabit access. The telco or development partner who ran the fiber is monopolized,
    so they charge ridiulous prices knowing there is no alternative matching their
    speed.

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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Apr 24 15:29:00 2023
    Re: Re: Connection Refused
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Thu Mar 09 2023 06:55 am

    Nightfox wrote to Brokenmind <=-

    Since 2015 I've been using fiber internet, which offers the same speed for both download and upload. Having such a wide gap between download and upload speed seems weird to me now.. With fiber, even if you have speed as high as gigabit, the gigabit speed is both for upload and download.

    I need to bite the bullet and get fiber. I'm sitting on a couple of terabytes of data I'd love to sync with the cloud, but with a bandwidth
    cap and 20 mbps upload speed on cable, it'd be painful.

    Who do you have, and do they have monthly bandwidth caps?





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    An electrical co-op north of me is pulling fiber into my area. I'm waiting
    now for to be run down my street. The company is paying $75,000 a mile for running fiber. I think they got it through government funding during Covid.
    My area is a broad band no man's land. ATT won't invest in enhancing infrast ructure and Comcast will not spend $10,000 a mile to run cable down a road that has less than 20 houses per mile. On the half mile section I live on there are 4 houses separated by corn fields. I'm going to stick with Hughesnet until the fiber is run. Starlink has a long waiting list in my
    area and the price jumps for the price of a reciver and dish. At first they were priced at $500 fo rthe dish, now the price has increased to $750. At first they said no bandwidth caps,but now in reality they say it's necessary.


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Moondog on Tue Apr 25 07:02:00 2023
    Moondog wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    My area is a broad band no man's land. ATT won't invest in enhancing infrast ructure and Comcast will not spend $10,000 a mile to run cable down a road that has less than 20 houses per mile. On the half mile section I live on there are 4 houses separated by corn fields. I'm
    going to stick with Hughesnet until the fiber is run. Starlink has a
    long waiting list in my area and the price jumps for the price of a reciver and dish. At first they were priced at $500 fo rthe dish, now
    the price has increased to $750. At first they said no bandwidth
    caps,but now in reality they say it's necessary.


    AT&T FIber just moved in, but because of the street I'm on, AT&T fiber
    hangs lowest of all of the cables, and my neighbor's cable has been
    clipped by trucks thrice. It's taken 4-5 days to repair it each time -
    they roll a mid-sized pickup truck with a 6 foot ladder out with no
    chance of repairing it to meet the SLA, then call it in to escalate.



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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Apr 25 13:31:08 2023
    Re: Re: Connection Refused
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Moondog on Tue Apr 25 2023 07:02 am

    AT&T FIber just moved in, but because of the street I'm on, AT&T fiber

    Interesting, I didn't know AT&T was doing fiber these days. AT&T had cable internet service in my area about 20 years ago (theirs was my first broadband internet service), and then that ended up being acquired by Comcast.

    Nightfox

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