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Originally Posted by th'engineer
What about connecting to university or college for study how do you get the ports unblocked.
If you are in further education some of these ports are used if you need to connect to college.
Do we have to look for another ISP TV and phone provider
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If your college is using these insecure services there are probably some issues there already, and some hacker or other has already exploited them - in my experience from Uni connections to their servers were made over ssh (port 22) and not on the list of ports to be blocked, more to the point why would the University be trying to hit you on ports that would be blocked by any reasonable firewall anyway? Connections that are aimed at port x do not have to originate on port x on the source machine, and the replies don't have to come back to port x.
Finally JANet blocks most of these ports anyway, to leave an open login prompt for anyone who takes a fancy to it to hit with a dictionary attack is just mad without some proper secure authentication.