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Which incoming ports are not open for Cox residential users?

Which incoming ports are not open (blocked) for Cox residential users?

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Incoming ports 80, 25, and 21 are blocked. To prevent home users from running HTTP, FTP, and Mail servers from their residence. Business does not block these ports.

Update: Health Edge beat me to it as there is actually a support article describing each and every port and reason as to why it is blocked. Looks like 21 is not blocked for FTP.

*SMTP is only permitted outbound to Cox-provided SMTP servers. (For Port 25) (Example smtp.cox)

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Ports Blocked or Restricted by Cox High Speed Internet.

PortTransportProtocolDirectionReason 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 Neighborhood
1433 TCP MS-SQL Inbound Worms, Trojans
1434 UDP MS-SQL Inbound Worms, SQLslammer
1900 UDP MS-DS / NetBios Both Worms, Network Neighborhood

http://www.cox.com/residential/support/internet/article.cox?articleId=cacf82f0-6407-11df-ccef-000000000000

PS. FTP(21) is NOT blocked to best of my knowledge.

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Um...80 is not blocked for me

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Inbound TCP 80 is blocked for all inbound connections.  This does not apply to replies to outbound requests on port 80 as how that would block www access.

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