Has anyone asked Comcast to stop blocking inbound ports?

["Brendan Kidwell-2" <user=1552@nabble.blu.org>]

 I have a question that's tangental to the "DSL on the South Shore?" thread. 

I'm very mad right now. I have Comcast at home (Belmont, MA) and I just 
spent half an hour trying to setup a tunnel from home to my office computer 
I'm on at the moment, so my brother at his house could connect his vncserver 
to my listening vncviewer. 

Turns out that Comcast is blocking port 5500... and 5501... and EVERY port I 
tried except for SSH and HTTPS! I don't know when they made this change, and 
I never noticed because I only ever used SSH and HTTPS for inbound 
connections most of the time, blocking all others at my personal firewall. 
(I know what I'm doing and I can prove several different ways that they're 
blocking all the ports I tried.) 

Has anyone tried to solve this problem? Specifically, has anyone 
successfully talked to Comcast tech support, found someone who understood 
their complaint, and got their ports unblocked? I haven't tried calling them 
yet because I know talking to them would just make me a lot angrier right 
now. 

Who else is in my situation, with Comcast blocking most inbound ports? Can 
anyone list any other ports that are whitelisted besides 22 and 443? 

I'm seriously thinking of switching to Speakeasy for $18 more than what I'm 
paying now (and I think I can do without the 20 or so non-OTA Comcast TV 
channels I get with Comcast Internet.) 

Thanks for any help and/or consolation you all can provide. 

Brendan Kidwell 

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