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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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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