ALL incoming ports now BLOCKED on Comcast

Charles Newman · 2006-09-07T12:04:36+00:00

X-No-Archive: Yes Comcast is now blocking ALL incoming traffic intoyour PC, so anything even thinking of running a serverof any kind had better forget it. If you were runningany kind of online radio station, as I was, a goodalternative that works, and starting at a reasonableprice is Live 365, at you are a Comcast subscriber attempting to runyour own streaming audio and want an alternative,Live365 is the way to go. Packages that includethe ability to do live streaming from your computerstart at $20 monthly. I have been trying to startmy own online talk show and discovered thatComcast is now blocking all incoming trafficto customer computers. I did that byconnecting back to my setup by using anopen proxy server, and disovered thatall incoming traffic is now blocked.

Sep 07, 2006 29 Replies

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chilly8 20 years ago

If he really wants to run a radio station on Live 365, without being blocked or detected, he should try Tor, which is a new online privacy and security tooll that uses military grade encryption that is actually used by the United States Armed Forces. Anything sent through Tor cannot be cracked, sniffed, or analised. As one person once said "The book would be open, but the pages would all be in an unreadable language". The United States Government is using it in the War on Terror, so America's enemies cannot intercept any sensitive communications, the security is THAT good. All levels of government in the United States are using Tor to secure their communications, that is how good it is.

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Gene S. Berkowitz 20 years ago

Comcast does not really care WHAT you're serving, just how much bandwidth you are consuming; they can turn him off for talking too much about puppies.

..and from my reading, it appears that Tor uses SSL key generation for encryption, so while it is very good, it certainly isn't "military grade".

--Gene

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Charles Newman 19 years ago

X-No-Archive: Yes

It turns out the problem was not Comcast, this time. I just read on the special broadcaster website that one of their servers was acting flaky, and some broadcasters and listeners could not connect. It is a relief to know that the problem was not with Comcast.

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DLR 19 years ago

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

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BR 19 years ago

Whew! Good thing you didn't jump the gun.

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Charles Newman 19 years ago

"Charles Newman" wrote in message news:7budnZQDKaJDl53YnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@comcast.com...

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.

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Tom Stiller 19 years ago

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

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