Can I connect to my home computer with Adelphia Cable?

Hi, I'm totally new to this so excuse me if I sound retarded.

I have apache2.0 running on my windows xp computer. I have registered the domain URL and I'm trying to connect it to my computer's ip address [67.20.63.161]. URL works fine on my computer and so does URL. But when I try URL or URL from work, it can't connect.

I did a WHOIS search on DNSstuff.com and this is what it gave me:
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WHOIS results for 67.20.63.161
Generated by URL
Country: UNITED STATES

NOTE: More information appears to be available at NET-67-20-32-0-1.

Using cached answer (or, you can get fresh results).

Adelphia Cable Communications ADELPHIA-CABLE-5 (NET-67-20-0-0-1)
67.20.0.0 - 67.23.255.255
Adelphia 6720320-Z5 (NET-67-20-32-0-1)
67.20.32.0 - 67.20.63.255

# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2004-02-22 19:15
# Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database.
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Any ideas? Do I have to listen to a different port? Do I need to add something to hosts? Or is it just impossible to run my web page from home using a cable internet provider?

Thanks,
Anthony

I run a web server on and off through my cable modem. The trick for me was to do port forwarding ( or like dlink calls it virtual ports) on my router. Oh I also setup dynamic dns with zone edit and enabled it on my router as well.

Inside my network I could do just about everything you could but I could not get to it from the outside. Then I enabled my virtual port for the port I was running my webserver on and I was all set.

Granted I was using a linux box with RH 9 and apache 2 (I don't remember the exact version) but it still should work. I have the dlink 614+ router too if that helps.

Adelphia blocks tcp 80 which is most likely the port that your apache web server is running on. The first step to making sure that your page works is that you can access it from the outside (your work) at least using the IP address.

So ONE way you can access your apache server is if you configure it to run on a different tcp port, say 1441. That was just a random number. You might find another port number more appealing. Look around on the internet and see which port numbers are designated for corresponding services and pick a 'free' one. Once you do that you should at least be able to get to your page using http://67.20.63.161:1441
where 1441 is the port you chose and configured.

I agree it isn't too handy.

Ok, this sounds doable. I'm not 100% sure what you mean by "corresponding services". I guess you mean something like http vs ftp... And also, are you implying that Adelphia will have posted which ports are free for use? That would seem to defeat their purpose of blocking people from using their computers as servers. So, I guess you're saying I can't just use any port number I like? I need to find one that is free? Or maybe you're saying other people (i.e. not Adelphia) have posted this information based on trial-and-error experience?

To the first guy who replied: I pretty much didn't understand much of what you were talking about. As I said, I'm pretty retarded in this area, so if you could break it down as you might to a child or your wife , that would be helpful...

Thanks!

Yeah... I guess that wasn't too clear what I said. I mean certain ports are designated for certain services. For example typically 80 is for web servers, 21 for ftp, udp 53 for dns, tcp 25 and 110 with mail serversand the list goes on. I was just saying you should avoid using any of these port numbers as the port you set your apache web server to listen to.
Adelphia has supposedly blocked ports 80,25, & 110. They don't want people hosting standard web sites or mail servers.

Websites may eat up bandwidth if the traffic to the site becomes large, and mail servers can be used/abused by spammers. They try and allow as much bandwidth as possible to be utilized by everyday internet users.

After you setup your webserver on a different port as skiloup guided you to do, then you can setup URL forwarding on another service. URL forwarding is typically free. Your domain will point to the URL forwarder service webserver and their server will redirect clients to your server on your custom port so that people won't have to remember it.