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@Michael57  Really appreciate the insight and having another set of eyes on this. It's baffling.   I'm going to be in town tomorrow where I can test some things on my mobile hotspot to make sure I can still get to the cpanel login. I did see someone in the past having issues getting to their PLESK panel which is basically the same thing.    If I run a tracert to that :2087 URL, it doesn't even try to find it, says unable to locate. If I do the domain without the :2087, it finds it just fine and runs through the hops to get there.   I tried the VPN URL that I also have trouble with, and a tracert it will get like half way there and die... so I think thats the VPN delay that I've seen mentioned where it just can't get there in time... it was many seconds to even get halfway there.   Well I'll see how tomorrow's test goes. Next step is I'm having to rent an office space to get fiber internet in town and I''ll be able to connect to all this stuff that way. But frustrating to not have that connectivity at home for sure.       ... View more

Looks like the other website I can't access when on Hughesnet, uses port 2660.   Has anyone been able to open up ports with their setup? I feel like it's all in the router but have tried everything from various port ranges (under NAT section of settings) as well as disabling the firewall, disabling windows firewall, etc.   How do i open up an outgoing port so I can access these remote servers?          ... View more

@Michael57    Yes, I can access the main domain withou the port number. It's just a cpanel landing page, so the domain itself is working.    And I had the same thought on accessing my client's VPN. Is it running on another port that may also be blocked. There isn't a port number in the VPN url I access that worked from the other location. But could be some routing happening behind the scenes that is not getting through with Hughesnet. Seems like anything I try to do outside the normal web and email ports, don't want to work. Just can't figure out how to open them up on my end. Maybe they are blocked at hughesnet access level.    Even if it was really slow, I could get by. I only need to access either of these sites now and then. That's what is so frustrating. I may have to rent an office in town just to get their high speed/fiber internet and will then have no issues accessing these sites. But that's another monthly fee that's unexpected.        James ... View more

Thanks @Michael57    It's not a new site and works just fine if I'm out on my mobile network, or at a hotel, other location with this laptop. So it seems to be related to hughesnet and that 2087 port.   For the VPN, that also works fine on this laptop from my previous location where the client added my IP address to the network for access. But now moving here and switching to Hughesnet business, and getting a static IP, I had the client add this new IP address but I'm still unable to acces the site. Works fine on this laptop at the previous location. So the only difference is hughesnet.   The tech explaining how the the latency can cause issues for VPN makes sense. But I wish I had known that before I switched from residential to business for an added expense just to get an assigned public IP. It isn't faster than residential that I can tell. so there was no need to switch if I'm unable to VPN to a client.   Appreciate your help. I wish I could at least get the port 2087 figured out - it's a control panel for a web server I need to access now and then.      ... View more

Yes, rebooted several times. Also unplugged, plugged to fully reset. no luck.  I'll keep messing with settings, it's something with that 2087 port.   Also, I got the biz package with static IP so I could VPN into a client (that opens up your IP addy for access) and that doesn't work. Tech said the latency is too high for most VPN systems to work properly. Ugh! ... View more

I thought the same thing. The tech said port mapping. I feel like Ive done this before like with xbox or gaming servers like back in the day, had to open up ports on a router, but can't recall how.   But yeah this seems like if I were hosting a web server or something. But I'm just trying to ACCESS a server using a specific port. Just like FTP or other services you usually have to open up.    Very strange. Other devices can't reach the server. But when I leave the house and on normal verizon I can reach server just fine.  So it's something with hughesnet and that port.      For the firewall, there's a firewall section in the router admin that was enabled. I tried disabling and that did nothing. The tech said the firewall is just to protect people from accessing my equipment, etc. Shouldn't have to do with outgoing. Who knows, I may just have to pay the fee and watch them do something very simple to get this to work. ... View more

Tech support was saying if it's a port issue, I will have to do some port forwarding/port mapping.   In this case, port 2087.  Although he wouldn't tell me over the phone - they require a $79 fee or something and they'll set it up over remote desktop. Frustrating.   I'm in the port mapping on the router, and I know  my local IP and know the port, but then it wants a LAN Port. I've tried setting that to 2087, I also tried some other ports found on netstat like 135, 445, etc but not sure how to identify my LAN port.   Attaching screenshot if anyone has a clue or has done this before:   ... View more