Originally Posted by
Jhieminga
The big question is what that 'broadband shield' is doing. Is it a firewall? Does it selectively disable ports? I was thinking that a set of ports may have been blocked somewhere, which could disable a service.
When I used it about 10 years ago the BT router's 'Parental Controls' would block all requests to external DNS servers, while its own DNS server would block inquiries for URL's on the blacklist.