Some questions on Adelphia

Joshua R. Altemoos joshua at navyjosh.us
Wed Nov 19 22:02:51 EST 2003


Well i am in the Buffalo-Chiago Street System. But Oh well
> It varies by connection, mine were blocked before a collegue who also
> had adelphia, I believe they are doing this on their routers as they see
> fit, so depending on where you are on their network (kenmore, amherst,
> ect) you may or may not be blocked in some fashion or another. They also
> have the ability to upload a config file to your cable modem as well,
> they may also be able to block ports that way. I noticed they just
> changed the config file on mine, they allocated more bandwidth for
> upload finally. I now get about 25KB / s upload compared to the 14KB
> before. Possily upgrade from 129Kbits/s to 256 kb/s. I know they changed
> the config file because my Father in law's was down for a while and the
> adelphia tech had to manually upload the new config.
>
> Justin
>
> Justin Bennett
> Network Admin
> Dynabrade, Inc.
>
>
>
> Robert Todd wrote:
>
>>Josh, port 25 is not blocked by Adelphia.  I know, as I use that port
>> myself
>>:)  Port 80, however, is blocked.
>>
>>I also connect to my Linux box via SSH over Adelphia as well sometimes
>> when
>>I am at work (and I work FOR Adelphia).  I also have port 23 open as well
>> to
>>run my BBS from.
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org] On Behalf Of
>>Joshua R. Altemoos
>>Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 7:23 PM
>>To: nflug at nflug.org
>>Subject: RE: Some questions on Adelphia
>>
>>Hey,
>>
>>So true i was basicly asking out of experince =)
>>
>>Later Dayz
>>Josh
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Justin Bennett [mailto:justin.bennett at dynabrade.com]
>>Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 2:27 PM
>>To: nflug at nflug.org
>>Subject: Re: Some questions on Adelphia
>>
>>
>>The policy forbids any kind of information server. It all depends on
>>what you can get away with. I haven't heard of anyone getting in
>>'trouble'.  They are/were filtering (blocking) common ports like 80
>>(web) and 25 (mail), my buddy was running a webserver so he could post
>>pictures of his kids for their grandparents out of state, they blocked
>>that as well as port 25 so he got verizon DSL. I read the policy and
>>from what I understand, even running SSH so you can login from outside
>>is against their policy.
>>You can set it up, if they block that port you have 65534 more to choose
>>from.
>>
>>
>>
>>Justin Bennett
>>Network Administrator
>>RHCE (Redhat Certified Linux Engineer)
>>Dynabrade, Inc.
>>8989 Sheridan Dr.
>>Clarence, NY 14031
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Joshua R. Altemoos wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Hey,
>>>
>>>Well i know Adelphia's TOS and AUP forbid servers but do they mean
>>> servers
>>>that are on 24/7 and/or on reguarl ports. What i am trying to say is if
>>> i
>>>had adelphia as my boardband internet comapny could i run a webserver on
>>> a
>>>differnt port just to look at mail recived by fetchmail etc.???
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>


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~Later Dayz
Josh



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