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Skie · 03-06-2011, 18:41

I'm no expert but I'm thinking this isnt a routing issue.

I can get the header/title of a page to load, but then the browser stops and you are left with a blank page. If it was a routing issue, you wouldn't get to the site full stop. I think virgin are doing something with their DPI and for whatever reason it is knobbling certain sites immediately after you connect.

This would also explain why traceroutes show no issues. The DPI dosent see the contents of them as a problem so dosent intervene, while using a web connection obviously brings back the page and its contents which the DPI can then inspect and do its thing. Exactly what that is remains to be seen.

03-06-2011, 18:41	#30
Skie a giant headend Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Liverpool Posts: 1,169	Re: Virgin blocking certain sites? I'm no expert but I'm thinking this isnt a routing issue. I can get the header/title of a page to load, but then the browser stops and you are left with a blank page. If it was a routing issue, you wouldn't get to the site full stop. I think virgin are doing something with their DPI and for whatever reason it is knobbling certain sites immediately after you connect. This would also explain why traceroutes show no issues. The DPI dosent see the contents of them as a problem so dosent intervene, while using a web connection obviously brings back the page and its contents which the DPI can then inspect and do its thing. Exactly what that is remains to be seen.