Thanks for the reply.

The firewall is a Netgear FVS318. I understand that leaving the server
on the default ports is not a good idea so I would also like to know how
to change that and lock things down more. But for now I can't seem to
connect to it at all even on the default ports so I am not convinced
that it is just a firewall issue, it still doesn't seem to be listening
on 1433/1434 (I have opened 1434 as well).

As for the VPN idea, I have not looked into that at all yet, would it
still be possible to use DB tools like DTS if the clients are forced to
VPN first?

Thanks again.

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