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zen63 · 23-05-2009, 10:54

I just found this forum last night and wow its a good one - cheers to the owner and moderators - good job.

Im getting quite frustrated with Virgin BB, over the past two months their service has been unable to reach a data center in Holland which I use for development purposes. No problem I thought, and shifted to another datacentre (yes I know thats stupid - but I couldnt face dealing with tech support who generally know nothing other than how to power cycle a modem)

The server was of course available on any other ISP connection, globally and in the UK.

Last night, I couldnt access any of my proxy servers - I need to use these to test my Google advertising campaigns in different countries. I have numerous proxies in numerous countries all in different server farms, all with different IP ranges - and all for my own private use.

Once again these are all working on services other than Virgin Cable.

It seems like these muppets have decided that port 3128 is a bad one and simply stopped traffic to it - no warning, just a network time out.

So in the past two months, my work has been seriously impacted by a cable company that randomly takes action without informing their customer.

Has any one else been affected by these types of blockages? Do they resolve over time? Is there a useful method for getting Virgin to fix their over zealous port blocking?

I am seriously considering getting an alternate supplier as their service is not fit for the purpose I purchased it for.

Any help appreciated.........

23-05-2009, 10:54	#1
zen63 Inactive Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 11	Randomly blocking ports and IPs I just found this forum last night and wow its a good one - cheers to the owner and moderators - good job. Im getting quite frustrated with Virgin BB, over the past two months their service has been unable to reach a data center in Holland which I use for development purposes. No problem I thought, and shifted to another datacentre (yes I know thats stupid - but I couldnt face dealing with tech support who generally know nothing other than how to power cycle a modem) The server was of course available on any other ISP connection, globally and in the UK. Last night, I couldnt access any of my proxy servers - I need to use these to test my Google advertising campaigns in different countries. I have numerous proxies in numerous countries all in different server farms, all with different IP ranges - and all for my own private use. Once again these are all working on services other than Virgin Cable. It seems like these muppets have decided that port 3128 is a bad one and simply stopped traffic to it - no warning, just a network time out. So in the past two months, my work has been seriously impacted by a cable company that randomly takes action without informing their customer. Has any one else been affected by these types of blockages? Do they resolve over time? Is there a useful method for getting Virgin to fix their over zealous port blocking? I am seriously considering getting an alternate supplier as their service is not fit for the purpose I purchased it for. Any help appreciated.........