ALL incoming ports now BLOCKED on Comcast

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ALL incoming ports now BLOCKED on Comcast Charles Newman 09-07-2006
Posted by DLR on September 28, 2006, 1:29 pm
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BR wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:17:11 -0700, Charles Newman wrote:
>
>> It is a relief to know that the problem was not with Comcast.
>
> Whew! Good thing you didn't jump the gun. <g>

Yeah. Yelling, screaming, kicking, cussing, blaming the universe for
being unfair. Oh, wait. He did do that.

NMFall 20%
Posted by Charles Newman on September 6, 2007, 4:09 pm
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> X-No-Archive: Yes
>
> Comcast is now blocking ALL incoming traffic into
> your PC, so anything even thinking of running a server
> of any kind had better forget it. If you were running
> any kind of online radio station, as I was, a good
> alternative that works, and starting at a reasonable
> price is Live 365, at http://www.live365.com.
> If you are a Comcast subscriber attempting to run
> your own streaming audio and want an alternative,
> Live365 is the way to go. Packages that include
> the ability to do live streaming from your computer
> start at $20 monthly. I have been trying to start
> my own online talk show and discovered that
> Comcast is now blocking all incoming traffic
> to customer computers. I did that by
> connecting back to my setup by using an
> open proxy server, and disovered that
> all incoming traffic is now blocked.
>
>

One thing about incoming ports blocked is that I actually
had to turn my firewall off to use Skype telephony service,
or to watch sports on any of the P2P TV services from
China. Those services would work on Comcast, but
not without turning my firewall off. With DSL, that I just
switched over to, I dont have to do that. The combination
of incoming ports blocked on Comcast, and my firewall,
was causing a number of services not to work right. With
DSL, I can watch US open tennis on the 732K Eurosport
feed, from TVAnts, without all the annoying rebuffering,
and without having to turn off my firewall, like I did
with Comcast, to get TVAnts, and services like it,
to work on Comcast.




Posted by Tom Stiller on September 6, 2007, 8:30 pm
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> X-No-Archive: Yes
>
> Comcast is now blocking ALL incoming traffic into
> your PC, so anything even thinking of running a server
> of any kind had better forget it. If you were running
> any kind of online radio station, as I was, a good
> alternative that works, and starting at a reasonable
> price is Live 365, at http://www.live365.com.
> If you are a Comcast subscriber attempting to run
> your own streaming audio and want an alternative,
> Live365 is the way to go. Packages that include
> the ability to do live streaming from your computer
> start at $20 monthly. I have been trying to start
> my own online talk show and discovered that
> Comcast is now blocking all incoming traffic
> to customer computers. I did that by
> connecting back to my setup by using an
> open proxy server, and disovered that
> all incoming traffic is now blocked.

Strange. So far today my router, which is on the customer side of the
Comcast cable modem, has logged (and rejected) 544 connect attempts.
More than 90% of those are for ports 1026, 1027, or 1028. The rest are
scattered among well-known service ports.

Maybe Comcast is just blocking incoming traffic to /your/ IP address

--
Tom Stiller

PGP fingerprint = 5108 DDB2 9761 EDE5 E7E3 7BDA 71ED 6496 99C0 C7CF

Posted by Tom Stiller on September 6, 2007, 8:35 pm
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>
> > X-No-Archive: Yes
> >
> > Comcast is now blocking ALL incoming traffic into
> > your PC, so anything even thinking of running a server
> > of any kind had better forget it. If you were running
> > any kind of online radio station, as I was, a good
> > alternative that works, and starting at a reasonable
> > price is Live 365, at http://www.live365.com.
> > If you are a Comcast subscriber attempting to run
> > your own streaming audio and want an alternative,
> > Live365 is the way to go. Packages that include
> > the ability to do live streaming from your computer
> > start at $20 monthly. I have been trying to start
> > my own online talk show and discovered that
> > Comcast is now blocking all incoming traffic
> > to customer computers. I did that by
> > connecting back to my setup by using an
> > open proxy server, and disovered that
> > all incoming traffic is now blocked.
>
> Strange. So far today my router, which is on the customer side of the
> Comcast cable modem, has logged (and rejected) 544 connect attempts.
> More than 90% of those are for ports 1026, 1027, or 1028. The rest are
> scattered among well-known service ports.
>
> Maybe Comcast is just blocking incoming traffic to /your/ IP address

Oops! I didn't notice I was responding to a year old post. Sorry.

--
Tom Stiller

PGP fingerprint = 5108 DDB2 9761 EDE5 E7E3 7BDA 71ED 6496 99C0 C7CF

Posted by Bill M. on September 6, 2007, 9:01 pm
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On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 20:35:55 -0400, Tom Stiller

>
>>
>> > X-No-Archive: Yes
>> >
>> > Comcast is now blocking ALL incoming traffic into
>> > your PC, so anything even thinking of running a server
>> > of any kind had better forget it. If you were running
>> > any kind of online radio station, as I was, a good
>> > alternative that works, and starting at a reasonable
>> > price is Live 365, at http://www.live365.com.
>> > If you are a Comcast subscriber attempting to run
>> > your own streaming audio and want an alternative,
>> > Live365 is the way to go. Packages that include
>> > the ability to do live streaming from your computer
>> > start at $20 monthly. I have been trying to start
>> > my own online talk show and discovered that
>> > Comcast is now blocking all incoming traffic
>> > to customer computers. I did that by
>> > connecting back to my setup by using an
>> > open proxy server, and disovered that
>> > all incoming traffic is now blocked.
>>
>> Strange. So far today my router, which is on the customer side of the
>> Comcast cable modem, has logged (and rejected) 544 connect attempts.
>> More than 90% of those are for ports 1026, 1027, or 1028. The rest are
>> scattered among well-known service ports.
>>
>> Maybe Comcast is just blocking incoming traffic to /your/ IP address
>
>Oops! I didn't notice I was responding to a year old post. Sorry.

LOL Charles is having issues with his new ISP. <G>

--
Bill

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