Board:   [fsxNet] Retro Computing
Subject: Re: old inet = your own D
From:    kk4qbn (21:3/259)
Date:    Tue Oct 27, 2026 19:00

  Re: Re: old inet = your own D
  By: boraxman to Nightfox on Wed Oct 28 2026 10:44:19

> I never remember hearing about this being an issue in Australia. Maybe some
> of
> our large telcos did, but the smaller ones, like the one I was with couldn't
> give a toss.  Same with hosting your own servers, as long as you didn't run a
> business from your residential connection they didn't care if you had a web
> server etc.  I've seen in the US you have to be careful.

It's never really been an issue in my local area to my knowledge.

> In fact, the ISP I'm with now, is geared towards techies and they actually
> acknowledge that people will run their own servers, and that they are a good
> option for such customers.

I use Verizon 5g at home for my internet service now, and the routher that comes with service I have has NAT, port forwording, and DYNDNS options built into it, so very helpful for everything. I cannot recall if it was the same way with the T-mobile at home router also when I had it. But I do believe with tmobile 5g they had it to where all our popular ports were not accessible regardless. Verizon does not, and it was the same with Spectrum.

back long ago we were fed a an ISDN connection from our local ISP, and to pay for it in return we created and hosted a webmail portal for him, which was kinda crazy. Definatly something that would would probably not "go" in todays security conscience world.





Tim (kk4qbn)
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