I thought that. Isn't it more cable that blocks ports more than dsl? Dsl is likely the only thing, if anything I may be able to get. How can they block my inbound connections, isn't that in my control how I configure firewalls I run on my system? Is using a private ipaddress that I set my computer to run a dialin connection good enough if I need to dial in to my computer to get on the net if I'm away using my laptop somewhere else, or does my laptop become transmit only when I dial it in and log in with ppp? What do there http proxies do that some of them insist so much that you use them, do they affect whether or not I may, for instance, get a window-eyes update or visit linux related websites? I know if I test enabling ratings in ie 5.0, gwmicro's site is locked from use without a password, of course I knew it because I was testing it out for fun one day. Is it pretty well necessary if they don't give two ips to use ipmasking on the system with the modem that is to answer when I call? Getting linux to answer the line doesn't seem real hard, but what ip to dynamically assign the dialin machine, most likely my laptop from a remote location that's still a local call, would be hard. I read the cable howto, just to see what things might involve, and it seems that different providers do different things, some give static ip, some can change ip by dhcp as often as 10 minutes. Why do some need to change your ip so often, are they so incredibly paranoid that people might be running servers, or is there a real reason for changing quite often?
