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bskitmor
6 years agoAdvisor
Wake on Lan Question
I have managed to get my desktop computer to power up from a Magic packet sent from an Android cell phone in my home wifi space -- seems unlikely that I will be able to do this over the Internet usin...
bskitmor
6 years agoAdvisor
It would be nice to know exactly what the state of play is for Telus Fiber residential services when it comes to port blocking and other advanced config actions. The T3200m gives the impression that by changing the firewall security level all kinds of freedom becomes available when it comes to port management -- but don't believe this action does anything (have not tried rebooting the router after making a firewall change): at least following testing after trying to make a change.
bskitmor
6 years agoAdvisor
Ran NMAP to get a view of what gets through the Actiontec router -- only ports 80 and 443 are reported as open: the rest are either blocked or filtered. No point in fiddling with the Actiontec configuration -- apparently has no effect. Giving up fussing about ports -- maybe this is all explained somewhere in the Pure Fiber fine print...