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Wow. After 6 months of DSL he** (Covad/Bell Atlantic) that failed to deliver even a copper wire, I got a sales call from Road Runner, and was up and running (ha ha) on a cable modem within 3 business days. AMAZINGLY, Covad's stock crashed by 55% (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) We've had the same problems here in Champaign-Urbana (Illinois) with DSL delivery. McLeod put in two fiber rings around the twin cities over a year ago, but still haven't made *DSL available to the public despite promises to have it ready by (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yeah. The scuttlebutt is that they (RoadRunner) consider a personal firewall to be a violation of their Terms Of Use--if "they" understand the issue beyond being scared of it. LinkSys personal routers are *right out*. This is all rumor, (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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off-topic.geek replying to my own message... Uh. There was a little "Help" link on the www.rr.com page. That helped. Got the darn smtp address. Now I can finally mail my "Auczilla" bids, the true purpose of having a cable modem. (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) [snip] (...) And what if I just want to be able to access my home machine remotely? To do some direct file transfer, or whatever. Steve (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) At least here with AT&T cable you're not allowed to. They supposedly portscan your systems to make sure. I know many people who have a tunnel/VPN set up to and from work to get around this, though... Chris (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Ack, you got me started again... CURSE MICROSOFT! So, today I get approval for the VPN at work. The software says it only works with W98. I at least have W95 and they reassure me I'm ok. Well... I get the VPN installer. It tells me I need (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Cracking up.. replying to my own messages.. VPN is installed, but there are several routing issues where it doesn't get past my personal firewall, or they do but reply packets can't be routed back at W95. Ugh. (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Cracking up.. replying to my own replies to my own messages.. Upgraded VPC to 3.0, which under VPN no longer uses the W95's manually set IP address, so there's no routing issue... worse, my router registers absolutely NO packets returning from the (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) NO (...) I don't know if this applies to your particular cable modem setup but watch out for this one. (URL) your personal firewall set to pass the GRE packets (IP protocol type 47) used by PPTP? You also need to open tcp port 1723 for the (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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