rogers modem upgrade / port 25

[James Knott]

Allen Taylor wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 12:47:13PM -0700, Scott Ripley wrote:
>>hi all,
>>
>>(forgive me if this has already been discussed... :-)
>>
>>i just "upgraded" (at the request of rogers) my modem from their 
>>Terayon modem to their Motorola SURFboard modem...
>>
>>(along with my new IP address), it would appear that port 25 is blocked 
>>on outgoing SMTP connections, you need to authenticate against their 
>>SMTP server... of course it's simple enough:
>>http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/rogers/mail/pop/pop-28.html
>>
>>just annoying... (i was authenticating against my own server, etc.)
>>
>>anyone else run into this as well? any other surprises wrapped up in 
>>this modem upgrade present?
> 
> I went thru this modem upgrade (change/fix/...) about two years ago when
> I was still with Rogers. I was having a lot of dropping of sync, etc.
> Was totally transparent once I went thru their setup dialog with the
> tech to get their system to recognize the new modem (serial number,
> etc.). Don't remember if the IP addr changed. 

I got a new IP address too.
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