[BNM] Virgin and VPNs

Paul Silver paul at paulsilver.co.uk
Thu Apr 2 12:12:31 BST 2009 

If he's getting the TV service as well, they will usually supply a set
top box which has a cable modem built in and you can connect an ethernet
cable between that and your router or computer.

If you ask/nag nicely they will supply a separate cable modem. In the
past some people have found the set top box to be a bit unreliable and
when replaced with a separate cable modem their problems have gone away.
I haven't heard anything like that in the last year or two though so
maybe they got better boxes built at some point.

I don't know if you can replace the cable modem with one you've bought
separately. You can unscrew their connection from it, but I have no idea
if they expect certain hardware to be on the end of their connection.

Cheers

Paul

On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 11:40:33 +0100, "Alan Braddish" <alan at webspoke.co.uk>
said:
> 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-----
> From: bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org
> [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-----
> From: bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org
> [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-----
> From: bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org
> [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-----
> From: bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org
> [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-----
> From: bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org
> [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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