Milly Bitcoin [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2015-08-31 📝 Original message:> I have been struggling ...

📅 Original date posted:2015-08-31
📝 Original message:> I have been struggling to get port 8333 open all year,
>
> After hours of phone calls and messaging AT&T finally told me the truth
> of what was going on,

I went through this Comcast involving another port. When they blocked
the port I asked them the reason (I referenced their privacy policy that
they are supposed to disclose my account info to me). they told me it
didn't matter what their privacy policy said, they weren't going to tell
me. I then showed up in federal court and testified as to what they
were doing. It was a class action lawsuit against them for people who
tried to get refunds over bandwidth throttling and I was one of members
of the class.

In any event the solution for me was to get a business account rather
than a residential account. You get a gateway that you can configure
yourself and you can turn off the firewall. As far as I can tell no
ports are blocked like residential accounts. The cost was an extra
$10/month (unless you get other options like fixed IP and/or increased
bandwidth). maybe you can get the data from bitnodes.io to see if any
ISP is blocking nodes. Maybe stats could be posted based on ISP. I
have been running a node through that account for awhile now
https://getaddr.bitnodes.io/nodes/70.90.2.18-8333/

Russ