I had the residential 100 mbps 5 ^ connection with Charter. I became frustrated as I couldn't get a public webpage to show with port forwarding to 80. I was assured if I upgraded to business class that issue would be resolved. I went head and took the leap to a 50 mbps 5^ connection. Received a new modem (managed modem) which I have no access to. I set one of my pc's to one of the 6 static IPs I was issued and plugged directly into the modem. Started my apache server which is viewable if I enter the IP as the URL locally but not viewable from outside my local network. What this means to me is that there is port filtering on the business class account. I had hoped to run my own mail server and web server as I have done many times when I had bonded T1's even ATT DSL allows this. A phone call to business tech support showed that even with port forwarding to private local IP has same results. I can't believe they call this a business class connection ... this is a highly restricted connection.
I'm open to suggestions but was told my issue if escalated to the engineers would just be rejected and kicked back. I am seeking now some other type connection where I can have a real internet connection.
Suggestions?
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