I been up all night work on some stuff... I still have not slept. Mostly because comcast died very early this morning (round 3am), and I been up the whole time whack away at my cheap MetroPCS prepaid cellphone (Samsung Freeform R350) on the crappy MetroWeb Wap connection.
Thus far I've managed to:
1) Get the technician passcode needed to get into the debug menu and turn on DUN (dialup networking). Also my macbook already had drivers for the phone's modem. (which is menu -> 9 -> # then 587846)
2) A couple calls to a friend to get me metro PCS's wap proxy, and login details (btw the number is #777, username 10digitphone@mymetropcs.com, and password is mymetropcs, and the http/https proxy is wap.metropcs.net on port 3128)
3) Now with #2 I could least browse the web, but I wanted to get on IM, and so on. Turns out the only open port thats not restricted to a specific destination domain is 143, the imap mail port. So another local call and get 143 added to my VPS's listening port on sshd. (hey if you know another one let me know
)
4) ... so now I got an access port, open up terminal, ssh -D 9999 -p 143 -f -C -q -N user@ip-address, pop open System preference, networking, proxies, and set Sock5 proxy to 127.0.0.1 at port 9999
So now I'm here, SSH tunneled thru the VPS, got everything except IRC working. Apparently freenode automatically disconnects any detected proxies... was hoping to get on IRC chat.
I'm online... but hating the speed, at best its something like 2x that of standard compressed dialup speed. (modem os rated for 215k baud, but I get something like 15 to 30 kilobyte per second down). Really hoping comcast comes back up soon.
On a sidenote sounds like ZenSix isn't having a fun day from the twittering on my phone, first mediacom now cogent.
Thus far I've managed to:
1) Get the technician passcode needed to get into the debug menu and turn on DUN (dialup networking). Also my macbook already had drivers for the phone's modem. (which is menu -> 9 -> # then 587846)
2) A couple calls to a friend to get me metro PCS's wap proxy, and login details (btw the number is #777, username 10digitphone@mymetropcs.com, and password is mymetropcs, and the http/https proxy is wap.metropcs.net on port 3128)
3) Now with #2 I could least browse the web, but I wanted to get on IM, and so on. Turns out the only open port thats not restricted to a specific destination domain is 143, the imap mail port. So another local call and get 143 added to my VPS's listening port on sshd. (hey if you know another one let me know
)4) ... so now I got an access port, open up terminal, ssh -D 9999 -p 143 -f -C -q -N user@ip-address, pop open System preference, networking, proxies, and set Sock5 proxy to 127.0.0.1 at port 9999
So now I'm here, SSH tunneled thru the VPS, got everything except IRC working. Apparently freenode automatically disconnects any detected proxies... was hoping to get on IRC chat.
I'm online... but hating the speed, at best its something like 2x that of standard compressed dialup speed. (modem os rated for 215k baud, but I get something like 15 to 30 kilobyte per second down). Really hoping comcast comes back up soon.
On a sidenote sounds like ZenSix isn't having a fun day from the twittering on my phone, first mediacom now cogent.
