[ale] DSL woes

[Jim Lynch]

Jim Kinney wrote:
> My thinking exactly. netcat is a perfect tool for port testing.
>
> Tell the turd at ATT that you need to speak with a 
> _network_engineer_manager_ and that the Comcast Business Class line 
> you are testing seems to work and that you have a Cisco router 
> attached to their line and the Windows Server 2007 is not being 
> connected to.
>
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 12:41 PM, JK <jknapka at kneuro.net 
> <mailto:jknapka at kneuro.net>> wrote:
>
>     If you install Cygwin on the windows box and pick netcat (nc)
>     during the install process, you can tell netcat to listen on
>     any TCP port you want.  I think recent versions can do UDP as
>     well.
>
>     -- JK
>
>
>     On 3/30/2010 10:33 AM, Jim Lynch wrote:
>     > I'm having trouble with BS  sorry ATT DSL.  (I know, what's
>     new).  Here
>     > a few months back one of my apps developed a hearing problem.
>      It was
>     > hung from a non standard port and for some reason I could not get to
>     > that port from the WAN.  I determined the firewall in the router is
>     > still set up right.  Kinda strange, the non standard ports that
>     I have
>     > opened all of the time still work however the ones I bring up
>     and down
>     > don't.  It's like they did a port scan and closed all my unused
>     ports
>     > for me.
>     >
>     > Anyway they won't talk with me about the problem unless I'm running
>     > Windows. So I'm going to disconnect everything from the modem
>     except a
>     > switch and a Win XP box and run something listening to a blocked
>     port so
>     > I can prove to them it isn't working.  I don't have much hope
>     they will
>     > do anything about it but I'm going to try.  Can someone suggest an
>     > application that listens on a non standard port or something
>     that lets
>     > you config the port on Win XP?  Preferably a free one.
>     >
>     > Thanks,
>     > Jim.
>     >
>     >
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Jim, you're too funny.  Last time I complained about it the turd gave me 
a phone number to call.  When I did, it asked me for a credit card!

Jim.