[Gllug] BT Broadband

[Matthew King]

Alain Williams <addw at phcomp.co.uk> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:42:15AM +0000, Matthew King wrote:
>
>> Not to mention some to always avoid. I'd possibly put BT in that list
>> but it certainly includes Tiscali. From what I've heard it should
>> include Sky too but I've no direct experience, except that I understand
>> my uncle, who uses Sky, has a pre-configured router and has not been
>> given either the router or ADSL passwords. This is exactly the sort of
>> thing which rings alarm bells in my head.
>
> Errrm: how do you configure port forwarding then ? Or is this a 'dumb blonde'
> modem that doesn't do that sort of thing ?

Got it in one.

There's no need for port forwarding and I was only trying to resolve a
minor wireless irritation, (change the SSID), so I didn't push it. I've
no idea if I could have got the information eventually but not having it
up-front is not a good sign.

Matthew

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