In New York each borough (manhattan, brooklyn, bronx..etc) are separated into mini areas. In each area only ONE cable provider is able to compete for your business. So basically if you want cable you can only use the Cable company that is given your area.. so much for the idea of competition. Anyway, Last night I changed my port and got up to 2 bars of connection. I still displayed the brick wall even thoguh all firewalls I put up were disabled. After downloading one song my system was hit by a million pop ups that said "ERROR" and explaining that I had a firewall.

I've been told on this site that optimum has started blocking P2P networks. So I'd say, we should barrage them with complaints. If you go to their website there is a "chat live" button you can click (after noon)

My P2P service was stopped last week. I've had optimum for 6 months and a fwe weeks ago got Optimum voice.. then suddenly a week later my connection is blocked. To me this seems like a concerted effort by optimum to start shutting down P2P connections.