[BNM] Virgin and VPNs

[Alan Braddish]

Thanks for the suggestion Huw.


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[mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of Huw Selley
Sent: 02 April 2009 10:27
To: Brighton New Media
Subject: Re: [BNM] Virgin and VPNs

Hi,

On 2 Apr 2009, at 10:22, Alan Braddish wrote:
> Does anyone know if it's possible to host my own VPN on a Virgin  
> residential
> cable broadband line?

Don't see why not.

>
>
> I'm just thinking of a bog-standard PPTP (Port 1723) VPN.  i.e. do  
> they
> block any incoming VPN ports?

If they do then you can use something like openvpn (www.openvpn.org)  
which can be configured to live on an arbitrary tcp port if needs be.

hth
Huw
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