[H-GEN] Optus at Home problems

[Hilton Travis]

Hi Frank,
 
AFAIK Optus only blocks port 80 on its network to ensure you cannot run
a HTTP server on a standard port on your machine connected to the
Optus at home network.  They do not block ftp access to the Internet.
 
Sounds like there may be a dodgey NIC in the system - if it rund fine
with this NIC disconnected but dies with it connected, then this could
be the issue.  Does he have another NIC in this system too (home
network)?  May be worth removing and reinstalling the TCP/IP protocol
(good ol' Windows kill it, reinstall it and it should work).
 
Of course, this assumes he's running 'Doze on his box, not ***X.
 
Regards,
Hilon

-----Original Message-----
From: lists.humbug.org.au Mailing List Manager
[mailto:mdlishum at zerlargal.humbug.org.au] On Behalf Of Frank Brand
Sent: Saturday, 9 June 2001 2:23 PM
To: general at humbug.org.au
Subject: [H-GEN] Optus at Home problems


I have a friend with computer running cable with Optus at Home.
 
The computer runs fine when he is not connected to the Optus cable.
However, once he plugs in the connection (seems to be a USB
connection...not through an ethernet card) his machine starts to hang -
he might get 15 minutes of operation or maybe an hour but it hangs
regularly.
 
Also, he was able to get mp3,s easily using Napster but when he tries
various ftp clients he always gets a report that the remote host was
unable to be found. Does Optus disable ftp ports?
 
 
Anybody give any indications of what might be happening?
 
 
Frank Brand  

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