[Techtalk] Setting up an ADSL router for remote access

[David Sumbler]

I use a no-ip.com address when I need to connect to my friend's computer
across the internet, so that gets around the problem of her having a
dynamic IP address.  Of course, I have not been able to connect in any
case for the past few months because of her new router.

David

On Wed, 2015-12-30 at 10:33 +0000, Conor Daly wrote:
> Be aware also that BT used to reset ip addresses every 24 hours so she
> will be unlikely to have a static IP.  Dyndns or similar will deal with
> this.
> 
> Conor
> 
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 12:54:39PM -0500 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
> Michael Carson thought:
> > That seems likely to work. Personally, if also set up an outgoing ssh
> > tunnel to an asset of yours, in case it doesn't or it gets reset.
> > 
> > C.
> > On Dec 28, 2015 12:27, "David Sumbler" <david at aeolia.co.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > > I have an elderly (i.e. even more elderly that me) friend who lives a
> > > long way off; we keep in touch mostly by using Pidgin for IM.  For many
> > > years I have managed to keep her computer more or less functional,
> > > mainly by my logging in remotely.
> > >
> > > Very often the sort of things I need to sort out are merely uncollapsing
> > > folders in Evolution when she finds she can't see her emails.  She
> > > sometimes accidentally changes things like this because her eyesight is
> > > not very good; she has also been diagnosed with Alzheimers, and although
> > > that is at a fairly early stage she is easily confused if I try to
> > > explain how to correct things.
> > >
> > > Some months ago she had to get a new router.  She was supplied with a
> > > new one by her ISP (BT).  Unfortunately this means that I can no longer
> > > log in to her computer because the router has not been set up to permit
> > > that.
> > >
> > > She is now having computer problems which need to be sorted out.  They
> > > sound like simple things such as the collapsed folders I mentioned, and
> > > also she clearly has not applied any software updates for many months:
> > > she has probably forgotten how to.  So we have decided that she will
> > > send her computer to me to fix, which will probably only take a matter
> > > of minutes.
> > >
> > > It occurred to me that if she were to send her router as well I ought to
> > > be able to set that up so that when she reconnects everything I can then
> > > get an SSH connection to her computer.  When her router is here with me
> > > I doubt that I shall be able to get an internet connection with it: it
> > > is set up with her account details and BT is quite likely to refuse a
> > > connection because it is not coming through a BT phone line.  But so far
> > > as I can see I don't need an internet connection: I just need to be able
> > > to log into the router from her (or my) computer and set it up to allow
> > > incoming connections from me to be routed to her computer.
> > >
> > > Can anyone see a problem with this?  Is there anything I have overlooked
> > > which might prevent me from setting up the router the way we need
> > > without having an active internet connection?
> > >
> > > David
> > >
> > >
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