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Golden said:

Hi,

I've been away for a bit and saw some news about Kari going into hospital a few weeks? back. Has anyone heard from him? How is he going?

Regards,
Golden

Hi, i sent him few SMS but he never replied. Looks like he don't have access to his pc or mobile. As soon as I hear anything from him, I'll keep you guys posted.

boohbah said:

i do see port 161 open however and that is not so good , again i presume we cant close it

Im having this discussion in two threads, so it's getting a little confusing, so I'll just stick it all here.

I sent BT an email basically asking them to explain themselves, and got a level 1 tech support guy phone me back, to try and close the open ports down. He went through all the usual crap, deleted all my port forwarding rules, and surprise surprise, the port was still open. At that point he put me on hold, and then came back and said "We have just done a port scan on your computer, and the only ports we are detecting open are ports 80 and 88, which are used by your web browser".

See now I have 2 issues with this,

1) Isn't he supposed to tell me before he initiates a scan? Isn't that technically an attack, even if it's benign?
2) Well funny how port 161 and 4567 is showing open by several port scanners then isn't it, (I verified my findings by using Nortons scanner too) as well as the router actively accepting connections on 161.

When I pointed number 2 out to him, he then told me that "the port needs to be open so it doesn't interfere with online games." So, not only has he lied to me about the port being closed, he has also lied to me about the reason it's open. If you want a port opened for games on the HomeHub you do it the same way you do with any other router, you set up port forwarding.

I want to know what BT are monitoring on that port, it cannot be good, and there is no way to close it as far as I can see. Time to get my letter writing hat on I think.

Oh by the way boo, if you do a "User Specified Custom Port Probe" on 4567 you'll probably find that one is open too.

keep me posted as to how things go then i shall chase them up also,i would go back to homehub2 but the wifi kept dropping out causing me to restart the reuter about 10 times a day

I've always had a stealth reading since using the HomeHub 2, plus it gives the high security level which my other router didn't, that would only do WEP.

I've always been connected via Ethernet as the router is in the same room as me but at one point my husband connected via wireless from the room next door and he said he had connection drops but since he got his new machine with Windows 7 64 bit we drilled a hole in the wall between us and I connected him via Ethernet and he's had no more problems.

I had the same issue and it happened because someone else Installed a New Homehub 2.0 witch had the same Channel (Freq) As ours so Wireless kept Dropping out

We changed it to Channel 11 and works fine

Josh

that bit about the port needs to be open for online games sounds like pure bull - although he didn't specify exactly what online game - and who is playing it, i wonder?

This is it.

What game developer in their right mind would make a game listen on the SNMP port, when there is such a big chance of conflicts on any of the main system ports?

Anyway, I think I annoyed John a little bit when I was posting about this on his "server upgrade" thread, so he (or possibly someone else) split it off to here; severedsolo's broadband

I'll post any developments there.

Dinesh said:

Joan Archer said:

Wonderful photo's Dinesh, would love to see some from the wedding.:)

Hi Joan, at the moment I do not have even a single pic of wedding and reception. I will have the pics by Sunday so I can upload all of them. :)

Here's the link to this album I uploaded on FB:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...4&l=405bcc8b76

You're a very lucky man Dinesh :)

Borg 386 said:

This morning I was up early because this is the day they posted our grades.....

Somehow I got all A's and made the Deans List.....

To which my wife responds : "So how much is THIS bribe gonna cost us...."

Thanks Honey........

Congratulations! Well done. I made the Deans list in HS, but it didn't mean the same thing, lol

Tews said:

Today I was given a new kitten! It seems that it was abandoned by its mother before it was weaned. He is so small that I have to feed him with an eye dropper every 4 hours.. His favorite spot is curled up on my shoulder with his head snuggled behind my ear... I'll post some pics asap ... oh, and his name is Sam!!

Awww, melted Tom's heart

Golden said:

Hi,

I've been away for a bit and saw some news about Kari going into hospital a few weeks? back. Has anyone heard from him? How is he going?

Regards,
Golden

Not heard anything. Angie doesn't speak english, and don't think anyone else would know to post. We are all hoping for the best!

Shadowjk said:

Today I became the Owner of the Supporters Group :) If anyone is a supporter and has not joined then PM or VM Me and I will add you

https://www.sevenforums.com/group.php?groupid=83

Thanks Josh

A Guy

Hi guys, I have an update on Kari's health. I received an email earlier today from one of his best friend stating that the operation went successful and Kari should recover fully within few weeks. :)