It's probably a numpty question, but...

....I'm considering switching to UKOnline (any comments, good or bad,
welcomed on this), but I've been told that they block ports 8080, 80
and 3128. I use Shareaza and occasionally Kazaa, and I'd be taking
out a subscription to Giganews (again, any comments welcomed) to
download a couple of Gigs of binaries a month. Would these be
blocked?
--
Hugo Nebula
"If no-one on the internet wants a piece of this,
just how far from the pack have you strayed?"

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, Hugo
Nebula <abuse@localhost.?> writes
>...I'm considering switching to UKOnline (any comments, good or bad,
>welcomed on this), but I've been told that they block ports 8080, 80
>and 3128. I use Shareaza and occasionally Kazaa, and I'd be taking
>out a subscription to Giganews (again, any comments welcomed) to
>download a couple of Gigs of binaries a month. Would these be
>blocked?
From previous answers on here I believe it's only servers they block on
those ports, a quick call to them should confirm.

Be aware that being an LLU provider there is more that can go wrong in the
migration process as physical wires have to be swapped over to their
equipment. My migration to them ran into problems and I have been w/o
BB for the last ten days. There has been a lot of wasted time chasing red
herrings eg. why are you testing the line to my house which was running
balls out at 2M 'til the wires were snipped on migration day, very
frustrating.
--
fred
Plusnet - I hope you like vanilla

Hugo Nebula <abuse@localhost> wrote in
news:(E-Mail Removed):

> ...I'm considering switching to UKOnline (any comments, good or bad,
> welcomed on this), but I've been told that they block ports 8080, 80
> and 3128. I use Shareaza and occasionally Kazaa, and I'd be taking
> out a subscription to Giganews (again, any comments welcomed) to
> download a couple of Gigs of binaries a month. Would these be
> blocked?

Those blocked ports don't affect P2P or usenet. I transferred over to
UKOnline's 8Mbps service from PlusNet in May. It only took a total of 10
days and probably had less than an hour's downtime - I was at work when
the migration was completed and all I had to do was plug in my new
username and password into my router.

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Phil
http://www.philipchung.co.uk/