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Re: Make the internet yours again with an instant mesh network

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Post by fragmede »

jaytaylor wrote: post #26
aftbit wrote: post #20

>Nowadays, running a website from home is just about impossible. You may not have a public IP, and if you do, it likely changes from time to time. And even then, your ISP probably blocks you from running servers on it. I'm not sure about the author's country / ISP, but here in Midwest USA, our residential ISPs (cable or DSL, fiber if you are lucky) generally do not change IPs frequently (unless your router/modem is r…

Blocking port 25 is pretty annoying. I know there are explanations, but a month ago I really wanted to run a mail server for jaytaylor.com myself. Only to find out it's basically impossible with mainstream ISPs. It's not a realistic option, regardless of Comcast, AT&T Fiber, no big boy ISP supports it at this point. I don't know if ATT even provides email with my service, much less for a custom domain. How did the de…

The solution is to pay for business-class Internet at your home.

Re: Make the internet yours again with an instant mesh network

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Post by gfody »

NorwegianDude wrote: post #32
jaytaylor wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Blocking port 25 is pretty annoying. I know there are explanations, but a month ago I really wanted to run a mail server for jaytaylor.com myself. Only to find out it's basically impossible with mainstream ISPs. It's not a realistic option, regardless of Comcast, AT&T Fiber, no big boy ISP supports it at this point. I don't know if ATT even provides email with my service, much less for a custom domain. How did the de…

Port 25 is blocked by default for many ISPs around the world, and it makes sense. Look at it this way: If it was open by default, a lot of IPs would be blacklisted, making them basically unusable for email anyway. You can always rent a subnet or a server including network and host mail yourself.

you can also call your isp and get port 25 unblocked, gp's experience hasn't been my experience

Re: Make the internet yours again with an instant mesh network

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Post by tomrod »

daenz wrote: post #37

>Enter Yggdrasil This is perhaps the worst branding I've seen in awhile. It's impossible to say correctly without being taught, difficult to remember, and difficult to spell. It's almost like they don't want their efforts to be acknowledged.

Meh. It's common enough that people will catch on.

"Worldtree" is too 1990s. Better to have something with the power of myth and lore.

Re: Make the internet yours again with an instant mesh network

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Post by Invictus0 »

daenz wrote: post #37

>Enter Yggdrasil This is perhaps the worst branding I've seen in awhile. It's impossible to say correctly without being taught, difficult to remember, and difficult to spell. It's almost like they don't want their efforts to be acknowledged.

Sounds like some sort of medication

Re: Make the internet yours again with an instant mesh network

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Post by ehutch79 »

nynx wrote: post #39
daenz wrote: post #37

>Enter Yggdrasil This is perhaps the worst branding I've seen in awhile. It's impossible to say correctly without being taught, difficult to remember, and difficult to spell. It's almost like they don't want their efforts to be acknowledged.

It’s pretty easy to say and quite memorable in my opinion. Are you aware of the Norse roots of the name?

For normal, mainstream people, it isn't.

Re: Make the internet yours again with an instant mesh network

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Post by russellallen »

daenz wrote: post #37

>Enter Yggdrasil This is perhaps the worst branding I've seen in awhile. It's impossible to say correctly without being taught, difficult to remember, and difficult to spell. It's almost like they don't want their efforts to be acknowledged.

Yes indeed. People will think it is some sort of Linux distro.

Re: Make the internet yours again with an instant mesh network

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Post by literallyWTF »

daenz wrote: post #37

>Enter Yggdrasil This is perhaps the worst branding I've seen in awhile. It's impossible to say correctly without being taught, difficult to remember, and difficult to spell. It's almost like they don't want their efforts to be acknowledged.

They couldn’t come up with anything else? Shit you could’ve just named it after some random fruit and it would’ve been better than this dungeon and dragons sounding ass name.

Re: Make the internet yours again with an instant mesh network

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Post by donohoe »

ehutch79 wrote: post #46
nynx wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s pretty easy to say and quite memorable in my opinion. Are you aware of the Norse roots of the name?

For normal, mainstream people, it isn't.

In your bubble that might be the case, but that’s not necessarily true for a lot of other people.

Re: Make the internet yours again with an instant mesh network

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Post by jaytaylor »

fragmede wrote: post #41
jaytaylor wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Blocking port 25 is pretty annoying. I know there are explanations, but a month ago I really wanted to run a mail server for jaytaylor.com myself. Only to find out it's basically impossible with mainstream ISPs. It's not a realistic option, regardless of Comcast, AT&T Fiber, no big boy ISP supports it at this point. I don't know if ATT even provides email with my service, much less for a custom domain. How did the de…

The solution is to pay for business-class Internet at your home.

That's true, even though I'm not a business.

Would it be more cost effective to do a DO droplet? (haven't tried it personally yet).

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