HTTPS inbound blocked?

[Bhargavs]

Hello,

I have FIOS bundle with 35/35 internet plan. I access my home computer using RDP gateway which runs on port 443 and there is no way to customize the port it can run on. Until a week ago, it was working fine but I can't access it anymore.

The router is MI424WR. Please don't ask if I have configured router properly as if you read the lines above, you can tell it is, it was working fine until last week. There is no router port forwarding configuration issue, I can guarantee.

Has verizon changed and started blocking inbound port 443 recently? If not, what can I check? I have rebooted router already to no avail. If I need to call support, that's ok, I was hoping to rule out the obvious before I call them though.

Thanks for all replies in advance.

[Hubrisnxs]

Verizon continues to not block any ports. The Router and your Computers Software Firewall may have gone on the fritz and started blocking out of nowhere, but Verizon isn't blocking that port, and never has blocked that port. 

At one time they blocked port 80, but that has been silently unblocked over the last 3 years or 5 years or so, and the only thing they block now is outbound port 25 to combat spammers.

So you should be good to continue troubleshooting the router or your software firewall 

• What about Port 80 - is it blocked?
• What ports are blocked using Verizon FiOS?

[cbwoodstock91]

Hi,

         I'm wondering if you solve the issue? Because every time we use the net, the operating system takes updates from there

And makes  automatically changes, do you have more than one computer? If so, do you have the problem with the other?

If you don't have another computer to test, check if you have bad registries check if your windows made any update recently,

reset your browser for factory settings, also check your firewall program like Hubrisnxs said

please let me know what happened

your friend charly brown

[viafax999]

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@Bhargavs wrote:

Hello,

I have FIOS bundle with 35/35 internet plan. I access my home computer using RDP gateway which runs on port 443 and there is no way to customize the port it can run on. Until a week ago, it was working fine but I can't access it anymore.

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Why don't you just use rdp on port 3389 which can be customized to anything you want.

[Bhargavs · Accepted solution]

RDP connects to single machine. RDP Gateway allows me to connect to my Hyper-V lab running on my desktop without session hopping.

It turned out to be my forwarder set to incorrect machine configuration. Once corrected, it started working again. No rule changes or issues with router configuration.