Re: irc and public wifi access points

Michael Weinberg <[email protected]> Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:47:30 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.network.wireless.portland.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:41:17 -0700 (PDT), s mintier <smintier-/[email protected]>
wrote:
> So I am sitting here at Stumptown downtown, and I
> can't connect to IRC (or use any chat clients).I'm
> guessing they are port blocking. I've tried to change
> ports with no success.Any ideas on how to  further
> investigate and/or get past this.

First step, I'd figure out who the ISP is, then check their homepage to see
if anything obvious jumps out.

You could also get someone to do a port scan from outside. (i.e. send me
the IP off list)

Michael

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