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entwisi · 22-01-2007, 11:41

Pipex were always ultra reliable for me

Orange have been fine up to now apart from a few issues when I switched over. However having to try and sort those was far more difficult with Orange than I woudl have liked. plus I found Orange 'restrict' things for no good reason, e.g. I have my own email domain and have used it over the years from numerous ISPs yet Orange wouldn't let me send over SMTP via them, I could only use Orange's SMTP server. This was apain for me as it meant chamging it every day when I was at work or at home. I found a way round it as my email service run SMTP on a non standard port so we can get round issues like this.

Check that things like no ports are blocked on teh Vodaphone deal, A lot of ISPs also block port 80 and aren't too happy to allow stuff like VNC or ssh

22-01-2007, 11:41	#12
entwisi God Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Up Bash Posts: 7,827 Blog Entries: 3 Liked: 44 times Rep Power: 4390	Re: Vodafone Broadband Pipex were always ultra reliable for me Orange have been fine up to now apart from a few issues when I switched over. However having to try and sort those was far more difficult with Orange than I woudl have liked. plus I found Orange 'restrict' things for no good reason, e.g. I have my own email domain and have used it over the years from numerous ISPs yet Orange wouldn't let me send over SMTP via them, I could only use Orange's SMTP server. This was apain for me as it meant chamging it every day when I was at work or at home. I found a way round it as my email service run SMTP on a non standard port so we can get round issues like this. Check that things like no ports are blocked on teh Vodaphone deal, A lot of ISPs also block port 80 and aren't too happy to allow stuff like VNC or ssh __________________ Ian Technical God, No 1 Geek And Linux Guru Have you seen my Flickr pictures?