Re: what can be done against isp blocking ports

2008-03-30 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 04:15:58PM +0200, Geoff Shang wrote: > > My wife and I are currently on contract through Hot and Barak. But our > contract will be up in a few weeks. So we're ISP shopping and I'd be > interested in recommendations for the best (or least worst) ISPs. I've had no proble

Re: what can be done against isp blocking ports

2008-03-30 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi everyone, I've been following this thread with great interest. As a relative newcomer to Israel (I've been here 11 months), I'm only vaguely aware of some of the most prominent ISPs. I'm also aware that a few of them have murged recently. No-one here really seems to like any of the big o

Re: what can be done against isp blocking ports

2008-03-30 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 00:14 +0300, Gil Freund wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 5:46 AM, Gilboa Davara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 3/25/08, Maxim Veksler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > I can verify this is an ISP issue, because : > > There used to a way to create an ad-hoc

Re: what can be done against isp blocking ports

2008-03-29 Thread sara fink
Hi Gil OMG, I can't believe what I am hearing. You had to ask her which kind of electronic chip you have to insert in the pc. Just to bend her on knees. It reminds me of the BOFH (bastard operator from hell) jokes. http://bofh.ntk.net/Bastard.html Try it sometimes if you want to get a really goo

Re: what can be done against isp blocking ports

2008-03-29 Thread Gil Freund
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 1:25 AM, sammy ominsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 30/03/2008, at 00:14, Gil Freund wrote: > > > My two recent favorites from an ISP support tech: > > 1. You can have dhcp on you cable connection, it requires an > > electronic chip installed in the computer. > > I ha

Re: what can be done against isp blocking ports

2008-03-29 Thread sammy ominsky
On 30/03/2008, at 00:14, Gil Freund wrote: My two recent favorites from an ISP support tech: 1. You can have dhcp on you cable connection, it requires an electronic chip installed in the computer. I have to know, what was the context that gave birth to this gem? --sambo =

Re: what can be done against isp blocking ports

2008-03-29 Thread Gil Freund
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 5:46 AM, Gilboa Davara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/25/08, Maxim Veksler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > > I can verify this is an ISP issue, because : There used to a way to create an ad-hoc ADSL connection to Bezeq, and select an ISP from a web page. I can'

Re: what can be done against isp blocking ports

2008-03-26 Thread Gilboa Davara
On 3/25/08, Maxim Veksler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > I can verify this is an ISP issue, because : [snip] > We've spoke to 012 representative, it's always the same "automatic" > answer they have been instructed to provide: "Problem with your > computer, spyware, virus, wrong usage" No p

Re: what can be done against isp blocking ports

2008-03-25 Thread sara fink
Thanks Maxim. They were OK in the begining. And what about the following things: 1. Change ports, like 6 something random? 2. Encryption I can do in ftp. 3. Some kind of tunneling that traffic will be recognized as legit http. 4. Proxy? I also have a linksys router. When I experienced the pack

Re: what can be done against isp blocking ports

2008-03-25 Thread Maxim Veksler
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:56 AM, sara fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My ISP is 012. They claim that they don't block ports and they can't > block ports. "Something is on my computer. Viruses, spyware, > firewall". My firewall is disabled. And I am connected through the > modem only. Yet only 1

Re: what can be done against isp blocking ports

2008-03-25 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:56:37AM +0200, sara fink wrote: > My ISP is 012. They claim that they don't block ports and they can't > block ports. "Something is on my computer. Viruses, spyware, > firewall". My firewall is disabled. And I am connected through the > modem only. Yet only 1 port is ope

what can be done against isp blocking ports

2008-03-24 Thread sara fink
My ISP is 012. They claim that they don't block ports and they can't block ports. "Something is on my computer. Viruses, spyware, firewall". My firewall is disabled. And I am connected through the modem only. Yet only 1 port is open. What can I do in this case? Proxy client, server on the pc? Use