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Re: Has anyone asked Comcast to stop blocking inbound ports?



 On Dec 20, 2007 7:35 PM, Brendan Kidwell <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> 
> 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. 
> 
> 


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