[BNM] Virgin and VPNs

[Alan Braddish]

Wonderful!  Thanks Simon.  Nice to have that confirmed.

The reason I am asking is because a client is moving his office into his
home, and would like to have another employee be able to tap into the
network to pickup files etc.

He doesn't yet have the Virgin line installed, and Virgin have sent him out
a wireless router already.

Do you know if they will also install a modem, so that I can easily replace
their standard router with a more capable box?

He's getting the TV service too, so perhaps they'll just give him a set-top
box and run the broadband connection out of the back of that, into the
router.  I'm sure Virgin's optical cable won't be doing directly into the
back of a wireless router...?

Thanks,
Alan


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of Simon O'Hare
Sent: 02 April 2009 11:29
To: 'Brighton New Media'
Subject: Re: [BNM] Virgin and VPNs

I should have made clear - I'm doing exactly what you've described below
with DynDNS.

No problems that I've encountered.

S

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of Alan Braddish
Sent: 02 April 2009 10:59
To: 'Brighton New Media'
Subject: Re: [BNM] Virgin and VPNs

Ah, cool.

Thanks for your help.

Does anyone else run a PPTP based VPN over Virgin residential?

Ta.


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of Hazlitt Eastman
Sent: 02 April 2009 10:51
To: Brighton New Media
Subject: Re: [BNM] Virgin and VPNs

Hi Alan,

Residential lines.

Hazlitt

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of Alan Braddish
Sent: 02 April 2009 10:50
To: 'Brighton New Media'
Subject: Re: [BNM] Virgin and VPNs

Hazlitt, is it over a residential or business Virgin line?

Many thanks,
Alan


-----Original Message-----
From: bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org
[mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of Hazlitt
Eastman
Sent: 02 April 2009 10:46
To: Brighton New Media
Subject: Re: [BNM] Virgin and VPNs

Hi Alan,

They are using site to site IPsec vpns.

Unfortunately their routers don's support Dynamic-DNS.

Hazlitt


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of Alan Braddish
Sent: 02 April 2009 10:42
To: 'Brighton New Media'
Subject: Re: [BNM] Virgin and VPNs

Hazlitt,

Is your customer using a residential Virgin line?  What type of VPN is
it
exactly?  PPTP/ipSec?

I'm not too worried about the IP address, as I can just setup
Dynamic-DNS to
get a hostname to use with the varying IP address.  You might want to
look
at that for your customer, if their router supports it.

Alan


-----Original Message-----
From: bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org
[mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of Hazlitt
Eastman
Sent: 02 April 2009 10:29
To: Brighton New Media
Subject: Re: [BNM] Virgin and VPNs

Hi Alan,

We have a customer who insisted on running a couple of VPNs over Virgin.
The problem with them is that Virgin say they have allocated a static IP
address.  But it turns out that this is in fact what they call a 'long
lease' so the customer's IPs change from time to time and we have to go
and reconfigure the routers.

Hazlitt

-----Original Message-----
From: bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org
[mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of Alan Braddish
Sent: 02 April 2009 10:23
To: 'Brighton New Media'
Subject: [BNM] Virgin and VPNs

Hi All,

Does anyone know if it's possible to host my own VPN on a Virgin
residential
cable broadband line?

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

Thanks.
Alan



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