[Tfug] DynDNS howto

[Matt Jacob]

Cable is different. Cox owns the lines, they deliver the signal to
your modem, and everything flows through them. They run the show.

With DSL, you can have one company delivering the signal to your house
(e.g. Qwest) and another company providing Internet services (e.g.
MSN). I believe it has something to do with the FCC regulation of the
telephone industry. Or maybe not. I really don't know why it is how it
is, but there's my educated guess.

Matt

On 8/26/07, christopher floess <skeptikos at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/26/07, Predrag Punosevac <punosevac72 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I don't know if this would help you but my IP provider is MSN. The
> > Quest is just providing the physical connection.
>
> How did you find out about this info? Because I always just see
> adds for high-speed internet offered by Qwest (as well as cox)
> but no mention of a third party provider.
>
> > I think that the same is true with Cox and that your actual internet
> > provider is somebody else. I would not be surprised to learn that it
> > is MSN as well.
>
> I find it pretty bothersome that I could take up
> cox on their offer of high-speed internet with out knowing that I'm
> also establishing a agreement with a third party.
>
> I guess I just need to learn how to read my cox bill
>
> >
> > On 8/26/07, christopher floess <skeptikos at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Sorry, this was a general statement.  Apparently some ISP's do not want
> > > > you to run server applications and block certain ports.
> > > >
> > > > I was saying that Qwest does not block ports, at least if you are using
> > > > one of their partner ISP's that do not restrict your usage.
> > >
> > > Funny, I thought Qwest was the ISP. I guess they may have rights
> > > to the phone line, and just direct the traffic to the ISP, who takes
> > > care of things like dns, ip addresses, port blocking, etc. I think
> > > the person on the list who works for simply bits might best be
> > > able to clear this up. I'd still be interested who my isp is, if cox
> > > is just the guy whose line I connect to. Maybe they run both
> > > services
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Naturally you have to configure the DSL router to forward the
> > > > appropriate ports to your internal network.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Again, maybe cox runs both services. I don't know if you were
> > > following me and Predrag's discussion, but I wasn't able to log
> > > in to my modem the way he did.
> > >
> > > FWIW, my modem is a terayon tj715x, if you know how to log
> > > into it and configure it.
> > >
> > >
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> > >
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