By Philip Churchill on October 30th, 2007
ATT Comcast Time Warner Blocking Ports – The Debate Continues
I got an email from George Hayles regarding the info I posted the other week regarding ATT, Comcast and Time Warner blocking ports that can affect our Home Servers. He has asked if I can get your juices flowing and bring up the subject again, he adds:
“Since we are dealing with an oligopoly here, it may take some time to reverse this dangerous ISP practice. Any grass roots effort we could get going against this or do to encourage Microsoft to bring pressure may be important at this early point in the “battle”. What are your thoughts?
George”
Well, what do you think. Feel free to leave your comments and don’t forget that you can leave details of offending providers on our forum post.
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I guess we have to leave this issue upto the covert people. It is only a matter of time before someone or a group of people really go to town on both ISP’s and take down there entire network, or even better bug there crappy Sandvine servers. So kick back grab some popcorn and watch the fun begin.
I’ve been working with Don quite a bit with this issue and his efforts are being directed at Governor Matt Blunt (Missouri) and City Council members. Seeing how this is an upcoming election year we are both emailing and calling elected officials locally to apply the pressure, but to kill the monopoly of areas specfic to limited choices of ISPs.
If everyone affected or not by your ISP would call or email your local officials we can break the barrier!
ISP are doing all the can to hide or cover up with “limiting upload/downloads during busy times” to the press and public. This will not only affect WHS, but SharePoint and other software developed for communication will be affected in the long term.
Don’t forget that Time Warner AT&T and many others are moving towards mobile web applications and service, so this could also have an impact for upgraded mobile packages customers will be paying for.
Don’t let them limit our access why they increase rates every year for “better service and options”.
Is this what it looks like when they block?
Tracing route to couponseek.net [74.50.3.195]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms adsl-75-18-222-100.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net [75.
18.222.100]
2 37 ms 55 ms 32 ms adsl-75-18-223-254.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net [75.
18.223.254]
3 26 ms 34 ms 71 ms 64.164.107.130
4 36 ms 35 ms 29 ms bb1-g3-0.pltnca.sbcglobal.net [151.164.43.54]
5 40 ms 37 ms 35 ms ex1-p9-1.eqsjca.sbcglobal.net [151.164.190.14]
6 41 ms 57 ms 57 ms gar7.sffca.ip.att.net [12.122.79.97]
7 61 ms 68 ms 60 ms tbr1.sffca.ip.att.net [12.122.85.130]
8 71 ms 56 ms 70 ms cr1.sffca.ip.att.net [12.122.19.33]
9 134 ms 85 ms 126 ms cr1.la2ca.ip.att.net [12.122.3.122]
10 132 ms 113 ms 53 ms tbr1.la2ca.ip.att.net [12.122.19.154]
11 57 ms 54 ms 43 ms gar1.lv2nv.ip.att.net [12.123.199.245]
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 61 ms 40 ms 65 ms csr1-ge0921.lv1.marquisnet.com [208.110.166.38]
14 58 ms 51 ms 44 ms cust-lunarpages.csr1.lv1.marquisnet.com [208.65.
158.130]
15 67 ms 79 ms 57 ms hafgan.lunarservers.com [74.50.3.195]
Trace complete.