Question about my Apartment's net connection

[ImNeat]

How do I figure out what type of Internet connection I have? All I know is that my apartment complex goes through ApartmentHost.com, and they seem to just call it "Ethernet"

The weird thing is that whatsmyip.net shows me a different IP address than does my router's "status" section. Also, whatsmyip.com doesn't show me my IP.

I understand very little in regards to networking, so this is really confusing me.

((I am trying to figure this out is because I setup FreeNX (for remote connections) while visiting my parents (who have a DSL connection). I setup my desktop to receive the static IP 10.10.10.2 from the router, and setup the router to forward all port 22 SSH requests to the desktop. At my parents house this worked fine when connecting using the real IP address, but at my apartment when I use the real IP address (given by whatsmyip.net) I get the error "connection refused"))

[AlexK]

I think the way these Apartment connections are setup is something like this
ISP -> Apartment Router -> Your Router -> Your computer
That would be my rudimentary guess as to how it is setup. As for your ssh problem, I would suggest you talk to your apartment manager and ask him to forward port 22 or whatever to your router. Then on your router forward that port 22 to your computer.

At your parents house it would have looked something like
ISP -> Parent's Router -> Computer

One thing I would suggest is to not use port 22 as if someone else wants to use ssh for some reason, the incoming traffic would be forwarded to your computer. So select some random port > 1024 e.g. 131337and use that to forward ssh to your computer.

[ImNeat]

Yea, they probably block 22. Gonna work on changing the port (that's giving me problems, but I won't start this into a help thread).

So any educated guesses on what "type" of connection I have?

[AlexK]

So any educated guesses on what "type" of connection I have?

Could be anything really... Here in Australia some apartments are connected by 50MBit/sec Wireless links (shared through the apartment ofcourse), in your case it may be Wireless, Fiber, VDSL (or some derivative of DSL).

[ImNeat]

You were exactly right about my complex's setup - the only problem is that they won't forward Port 22 to me. I told them I'd take some random port, which I would then route to 22 from my router, but they still wouldn't do it. The downside to an all-inclusive apartment in a college town I guess...

Are there any other types of remote connections aside from the basic ssh/vnc/rdp? Any others that might possibly work for me?

[AlexK]

Are there any other types of remote connections aside from the basic ssh/vnc/rdp? Any others that might possibly work for me?

Not that I know of.. Every single one that I know of requires port forwarding enabled in order to work.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

[yourname3232]

You might want to look into hamachi. It is free and allows a VPN type situation and supports nat traversial. You may want to look into that. What hamachi will do is assign you an ip address, like 5.5.5.5, and then on your computer that is treated as a local connection and it gives you access as if you were on a sort of LAN with it. Hamachi is really useful for those types of situations and it works on linux, windows, and mac.

edit: you can download hamachi here.