My internet service is down for several days waiting on AT&T tech to come fix.

I wanted to run my BBS using a mobile hotspot off of my cellphone but apparently ISP's block all incoming connections only outgoing is allowed.

Has anyone found a way around this using an app or ?

TIA





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Re: BBS on Cell Hotspot
By: LEE GREEN to ALL on Sat Feb 15 2025 12:21 pm

My internet service is down for several days waiting on AT&T tech to come fix.

I am guessing you already tried all the normal solutions; tighten connections, reboot cable modem, reboot computer. My internet/cable was down for about 1 day when the computer tech that came out to work on a neighbors cable disconnected mine for no reason at all.
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The heavy rains are causing my problems nothing in my house, it was
working fine until it started to rain as usual.

I have similar experiences when it rains excessively ... wait a while and the issue goed away.

Some techs are useless, why would he disconnect you?

When I read about some of the techical challenges, it really is a special country overthere, for more than one reason. Friend of mine in MT had issues in a residential area of a 100.000 town, it took 5 days to get a fix.

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Re: RE:BBS on Cell Hotspot
By: LEE GREEN to Greg Meckel on Sat Feb 15 2025 11:04 pm

when the computer tech that came out to work on a neighbors cable disconnected
mine for no reason at all.

Some techs are useless, why would he disconnect you

Because he didn't know what he was doing
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My internet service is down for several days waiting on AT&T tech to
come fix.
I wanted to run my BBS using a mobile hotspot off of my cellphone but apparently ISP's block all incoming connections only outgoing is
allowed.
Has anyone found a way around this using an app or ?

MeaTLoTioN used to run PIMP (Phone in my Pocket BBS)... he also wrote a .PDF showing how to set it up - this particular setup used an Android cell phone - but maybe it has some tips about receiving connections??

https://shorturl.at/il7kj



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My internet service is down for several days waiting on AT&T tech to
come fix.
I wanted to run my BBS using a mobile hotspot off of my cellphone but apparently ISP's block all incoming connections only outgoing is
allowed.
Has anyone found a way around this using an app or ?

Yea, mL just responded and mentioned using reverse ssh tunnels - and its covered in that file I posted last reply. :P



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LEE GREEN wrote to Ward Dossche <=-

I am waiting 10 days for them to show up, AT&T doesn't care about their DSL and landline users they want them to upgrade to the latest and greatest.

"Never attribute to malice what you can attribute to organizational
ineffectiveness and monopoly mindset"

(Massively paraphrased from someone else...)

AT&T isn't great with their latest and greatest, either. My next-door
neighbor has AT&T Fiber, and because of our street layout, he has a
long run from the utility pole to his house. There's quite a bit of
slack in the line, which means once a year a passing moving truck takes
his fiber down.

He calls AT&T, and within their 4 hour reponse window, a guy with an
AT&T fleet subcompact car comes out, says "Yep, your fiber's cut, we
need to roll a truck". They've stopped the response clock with the guy
in the car. 4-5 days later, a truck rolls and fixes the fiber.

Their "permanent" fix was to throw the fiber over the comcast cable
line on the pole to give it a little more height. That'll work until
the fiber degrades from rubbing against the Comcast wire.

I've wanted to get AT&T fiber, as I need the upload speeds and lack of
bandwidth cap, but I'm concerned about the run to my house. I think I
might be OK if they can be convinced to do less than the absolute
minimum to get the fiber to my house.

I'm not confident of that.



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paul lee wrote to LEE GREEN <=-

MeaTLoTioN used to run PIMP (Phone in my Pocket BBS)... he also wrote a .PDF showing how to set it up - this particular setup used an Android
cell phone - but maybe it has some tips about receiving connections??

I have an application at work that uses Wi-fi hot spots to provide
connectivity from AWS to a WAN via SSH. For $5/month, we pay for static
IPs on the hotspots and inbound ports are open. The WAN nodes "phone
home" and are identified by their IP, and we can SSH into a device on
the far end.

If anyone wants to run a BBS out of a van, that's the way to go.


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paul lee wrote to LEE GREEN <=-

Yea, mL just responded and mentioned using reverse ssh tunnels - and
its covered in that file I posted last reply. :P

Cloudflare does alternate ports/traffic, doesn't it? If you could
tunnel SSH/Telnet and bink through Cloudflare there'd be no need for
a lot of the complication of running a BBS from home...



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My internet service is down for several days waiting on AT&T tech to come fix.
I wanted to run my BBS using a mobile hotspot off of my cellphone but apparently ISP's block all incoming connections only outgoing is allowed.
Has anyone found a way around this using an app or ?

MeaTLoTioN used to run PIMP (Phone in my Pocket BBS)... he also wrote a .PDF showing how to set it up - this particular setup used an Android cell phone -
but maybe it has some tips about receiving connections??

https://shorturl.at/il7kj

Thanks for the link.

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My internet service is down for several days waiting on AT&T tech to come fix.
I wanted to run my BBS using a mobile hotspot off of my cellphone but apparently ISP's block all incoming connections only outgoing is allowed.
Has anyone found a way around this using an app or ?

Yea, mL just responded and mentioned using reverse ssh tunnels - and its covered in that file I posted last reply. :P

Yeah I think it's more work than I want to do for just a couple of days
and I'm not familiar with Linux.

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LEE GREEN wrote to Ward Dossche <=-

I am waiting 10 days for them to show up, AT&T doesn't care about their DSL and landline users they want them to upgrade to the latest and greatest.

"Never attribute to malice what you can attribute to organizational
ineffectiveness and monopoly mindset"

(Massively paraphrased from someone else...)

AT&T isn't great with their latest and greatest, either. My next-door
neighbor has AT&T Fiber, and because of our street layout, he has a
long run from the utility pole to his house. There's quite a bit of
slack in the line, which means once a year a passing moving truck takes
his fiber down.

I've read some of the complaints.
I had slack in a line that I thought was the cable company line so I
called them out but it was AT&T phoneline so they came out and tightened
it up now it's hanging again, I think I'll let a truck snag it this time
screw AT&T.

He calls AT&T, and within their 4 hour reponse window, a guy with an
AT&T fleet subcompact car comes out, says "Yep, your fiber's cut, we
need to roll a truck". They've stopped the response clock with the guy
in the car. 4-5 days later, a truck rolls and fixes the fiber.

Their "permanent" fix was to throw the fiber over the comcast cable
line on the pole to give it a little more height. That'll work until
the fiber degrades from rubbing against the Comcast wire.

But by then those techs will be long gone so they don't care how they
fixed it.

I've wanted to get AT&T fiber, as I need the upload speeds and lack of
bandwidth cap, but I'm concerned about the run to my house. I think I
might be OK if they can be convinced to do less than the absolute
minimum to get the fiber to my house.

I'm not confident of that.

I wouldn't be either.

Are all ports open in AT&T fiber? residential or business?
I'm thinking of trying Earthlink fiber but they can only get me 12mbps
or 24mbps where I'm at, right now I'm at 3Mbps DSL with AT&T.

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LEE GREEN wrote to KURT WEISKE <=-

Are all ports open in AT&T fiber? residential or business?
I'm thinking of trying Earthlink fiber but they can only get me 12mbps
or 24mbps where I'm at, right now I'm at 3Mbps DSL with AT&T.

I'm guessing they won't open SMTP ports on a residential account, but
other ports would be open. The reality is nowadays that using home SMTP
services is more trouble than it's worth, as the large providers most
people use often seem to ban mail coming from home IP ranges by
default.



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