Subj : A small questionary on ISPs
To   : Scott Street
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Fri Oct 22 2021 21:42:25

Hello Scott,

On Wednesday October 20 2021 10:41, you wrote to me:

 MV>> OK, so you have outgoing IPv6 capbility. But incoming is still a
 MV>> problem. Can you expand a bit on what attempts you have made to
 MV>> achieve incoming and why you think it didn't work?

 SS> Ah, two reasons.
 SS> a)  I'm not in direct control of the router, my roommate is the
 SS> "customer" on the account and he is non-techincal.  Thus I have to
 SS> walk him through the changes on the Xfinity app to allow pin-holes in
 SS> the default firewall/router.

That sucks. Can't you pesuade him to hand over control of the router to you? In exchange for you doing the maintenance on the LAN? A sysop not having control, that really sucks.

 SS> b)  After much of the "walking through", Xfinity/Comcast would 'clean'
 SS> the firewall rules of the required settings; both for IPv4 and IPv6.

Very odd. A normal reboot would not do that, only a factoy reset. ISPs can initiate both, and a reboot is not all that strange, but a factory reset would not normally be done by an ISP.

 SS> Neither of these are probably Comcast's issues; more likely my
 SS> /non-techincal/ roommate.

Possibly...

 SS> For a real solution, I am awaiting for permanent employment before I
 SS> just into getting my very own connection.

If you can not persuade your roommate to hand over control, getting your own connection will certainly be the better solution...


Cheers, Michiel

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