website from home computer

[programmerwannabe]

I have attbroadband as my ISP. I recently found out that their firewall is preventing others from viewing my pages from my computer.  I was wondering if its possible to host a website from my home computer without having to go through my ISP. I called my local telephone company and they said for 5 dollars they would point their DNS server to my IP address. However when I explained the situation to them he said it shouldnt matter and that the ATT wont allow access through their firewall but ATT is saying yes it would. Can someone advise please?
Thanks in advance.

[rich]

Hi there

You say you are on ATT Broadband, you have to check with them to see if they allow you to run a web server on your connection. It usually to do with the company wanting to connect the most amount of users to their servers so their stop the uploading from users on certain ports to free up their bandwidth.

I know over here in the uk, some of the cable companies who provide cable broadband do not allow you to run a server and block ports at their end.  I think the web browser port is 80 and 21 for ftp so ask your isp about these ports  Set the ftp server up in IIS and ask somone to see if they can connect to it also.

you can always get me on messenger if you want any further help

richard_bonner@hotmail.com

rich

[Flash-db]

I know that when I was with Excite@home this was not a problem.  But now that AT&T is in control they do block those ports - Actually I'm not sure what they do but your right Port 80 doesn't work - and I'm not sure how to set up a server with their connection.  I am fairly certain that they just started to do this though.

Anyways, Your question could probably be better answered at this site:

http://www.cablesense.com

- Post the same question on their message board - they seem to be good at answering these type's of questions - Much better then you would be able to get from the AT&T peopole.

I'm sure their's a way around this.  Probably just some setting change.

[arckid]

hi,

goto no-ip.org ... they have complete solution for you if your port 80 is blocked then also ...

mail me at me[at]arckid.com for complete details. or just goto http://www.no-ip.org