Posted: 2/3/2010 10:34:32 AM EDT
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I asked Sky why I cannot access arfcom directly, this is the reply: Thank you for contacting Sky Help Centre regarding the browsing issue. Can you please reply with the error message your receiving as it may be the browser that is blocking the access. It might also be the port that the particular web site is on. The Sky Broadband blocks 4 ports to the Internet, to enable functionality for Sky Broadband to work correctly. These ports are 25, 80, 8080 and 3128. WTF does this mean??? anyone! |
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It don't understand why Sky are saying they block ports 80 and 8080 as these are the ports all browsers and webservers use to display webpages. Port 25 is for the sending of email and port 3128 is commonly used by proxy servers. What they probably mean is that they are blocking them to stop you running a webserver or email server at home. Anyway funny things happen inside your router to convert external ports to internal ports for specific computers on your network. Bah bah bah...I wont go into all the details of NAT. The problem is probably with Sky not having a route or DNS entry for AR15.com. Go to START - RUN and type in CMD assuming you are running XP. (If you are running Vista or Win7 I have no clue where the COMMAND app is) then type in ping www.ar15.com and you should get back something like this. colin@Core:~$ ping www.ar15.com PING ar15.com (69.95.2.67) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from host-69-95-2-67.roc.choiceone.net (69.95.2.67): icmp_seq=1 ttl=245 time=101 ms 64 bytes from host-69-95-2-67.roc.choiceone.net (69.95.2.67): icmp_seq=2 ttl=245 time=102 ms 64 bytes from host-69-95-2-67.roc.choiceone.net (69.95.2.67): icmp_seq=3 ttl=245 time=120 ms 64 bytes from host-69-95-2-67.roc.choiceone.net (69.95.2.67): icmp_seq=4 ttl=245 time=101 ms ^C64 bytes from host-69-95-2-67.roc.choiceone.net (69.95.2.67): icmp_seq=5 ttl=245 time=136 ms ––- ar15.com ping statistics ––- 5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4004ms If you get a Request Timed Out or Network Unreachable error then the problem is with Sky. Let me know how that works out, and we can try some other things. Colin |
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I'm with Zen. No issues +1 for Zen. We know one of guys on their 2nd line support team and have it from him that they play it totally straight - no in-line monitoring or reselling of usage data or bandwidth throttling on their 'all you can eat' packages. Not the cheapest, but like everything in life you get what you pay for. |
