On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 00:40 -0700, Edward Norton wrote:

For clarification on what ports are blocked by COX on residential networks, go to http://support.cox.com/sdcxuser/asp/Cox_searchresults.asp and type 'ports filtered' in the search box. Second link from the top of the search results. Good details.

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in that this has been a continuing topic of discussion and the above link doesn't work for anyone I am including their markup code in this html mail which should make it clear what they are blocking.

Port	Transport	Protocol	Direction	Reason for Filtering
25	TCP	SMTP	Both*	SMTP Relays
80	TCP	HTTP	Inbound	Web servers, worms
135	UDP	NetBios	Both	Net Send Spam/Pop-ups, Worms
136-139	UDP, TCP	NetBios	Both	Worms, Network Neighborhood
445	TCP	MS-DS/ NetBios	Both	Worms, Network Neighhood
1433	TCP	MS-SQL	Inbound	Worms, Trojans
1434	UDP	MS-SQL	Inbound	Worms, SQLslammer
1900	UDP	MS-DS/ NetBios	Both	Worms, Network Neighborhood
TCP	Subseven	Both	SubSeven Trojan

I forgot about slammer.

Craig