Just looking for some feedback.....

I had been having some problems with my LW account and the firewall symbol being present even though my firewall was set to allow LW. So, I was told to contact my ISP to find out if there was an internal firewall and to see if they could help me configure it. When I called my ISP they told me they don't allow LW or any peer to peer sharing program?? What kind of garbage is this? Can they really do this? I just find this so absolutely ridiculous! Has anyone ever heard of this? I'm so disheartened by this. The weird thing is that I had been using limewire for about 8 months with no problems and then all of the sudden, I couldn't connect.

Lots of ISPs block or shape bandwidth for p2p. There are loads of examples here
ISP's known to BLOCK or Filter p2p or specifically Limewire

You'll probably find that there's some mention of their p2p policy within the terms & conditions of your internet plan. The obvious fix is to change ISP but it's easier than it sounds if you're locked into a contract

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Who is your ISP? (internet service provider)

If that's their approach then find another ISP (wait till your contract completes.) If no options, then the best would be to use proxies. But you need to search long & hard for numbers that work. And even may need to change from time to time afaik. A Fix for those whose ISP's block Limewire pages 1 - 3 which have links to alternative instructions. eg: Tor is supposed to be a good one. But there's many others.

(Edit: This is the 2nd thread in a row birdy has beaten me to an answer within 2 mins. of posting.)

My ISP is Ygnition. After I posted I started researching this and started reading about how this seems to be a problem with a lot of ISP's....I guess I was just so ticked off that I didn't stop to look before I posted. Unfortunately, the apartment complex that I live in limits who I can use for ISP's, so I don't have a choice on who I get to use. * sigh * I read about the proxies, but don't know much about this stuff and and I'm kind of confused by all of it....I guess I could just mess around with it, but I'm scared I'm going to ***** something up.

I've an idea, why not change your isp to TV Max! Hey! [img]http://users.pandora*****eforum/emoticons4u/happy/019.gif[/img]

Ygnition/TV max are the same......TV Max is Ygnition's sister company. I pay TV Max, but the support is handled by ygnition.

Toadsprout

Unfortunately, you are only just now learning how an ISP (or all ISPs) can mess with their customers and the poor customer has no recourse other than to look elsewhere for another ISP.

However, unlike Birdy's optimistic reply, not all ISPs make it known their true policy towards P2P traffic and while other ISPs develop an anti-P2P policy as they go along.

For example, I used to belong to Virgin, here in the UK, and I used LW quite happily for a number of months (about 18 or so) then all of a sudden I could not use LW anymore. There was no announcement, no email or anything else it was just one day I could use LW and the next day I couldn't. I even emailed Virgin's help line several times to ask if they had adopted "Traffic Shaping Techniques" (I found out about TST after reading about it in this forum and doing some internet research).

I never got an answer to my TST questions but any other query I had was answered, which showed me that they had used TST on my internet connection but they were not willing to publicly admit it.

I then read, in an internet article, that Virgin had secretly adopted an anti-P2P policy and were using TS Techniques to kill off P2P traffic.

I now had no choice but to leave Virgin, who were expensive but I was quite happy with, because of the secret anti-P2P policy they had taken up.

My point is, your ISP doesn’t have to tell you anything about their change in business policy once you have signed on the dotted line, they don’t have to advertise it and sometimes they don’t even tell their own help desk.

I’ve changed my ISP now but I am still angry that my original ISP thought I was dumb enough to accept their high prices while they were only delivering half the expected service.




UK Bob

Thanks ukbobboy01.

When I called my ISP, they flat out told me, we don't allow LW or any other P2P. I was angry beyond belief when they told me this and unfortunately, unless I move, I'm SOL due to the fact that my complex only allows you to use the provider that they established a contract with. I've seen some petitions going around the complex in an attempt to to get rid of the provider because they provide horrible service and they charge ridiculous prices, but thus far, nothing's come of the petitions.