I am the owner of iworkwithpeople.comI have not been able to connect to my website now for nearly a week, I have seen that I can connect while at work on a t3 line, and I can connect on my female friend’s computer that has a dsl line, and a few friends from live.Pirillo.com have helped me and checked the connection from where they are and they all connect.. except the people on comcast . My site’s address is iworkwithpeople.com and the service I have is through 50megs.com. i assume they took it upon themselves to block 50megs.com for what ever reason they saw fit. in the process of blocking 50megs, they blocked me.. This reduces the number of page visits considerably. Considering they monopolized the cable industry, it looks more like a 20’s gangster bull crap “ehh mugsy don’t let no one connect to them until they pay me 50% seeeeeeee” .I am not happy with this .
The letter I wrote is to follow…
Comcast Houston blocking my domain.
I own a website, through 50megs.com
I can connect to my file manager on sbc dsl, I can connect through sprint dsl and I have connected at work with a t3 line, but when I get home or to any of my friend’s houses with Comcast I can not connect to 50megs.com . I am near time to re up on my domain name and hosting bills and getting really frustrated that I can not connect from home where i feel safe. I want to connect to my service and it appears you are blocking me. Please look into this and solve this issue.
From work we did a tracert
After doing a tracert and a whois we find these services
1 19 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 74.7.23.193
3 8 ms 9 ms 7 ms 172.22.213.125
4 14 ms 7 ms 9 ms 192.168.39.48
5 13 ms 9 ms 7 ms 192.168.38.34
6 12 ms 8 ms 9 ms ge-1-6.r03.hstntx01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [128.241.1
.177]
7 13 ms 9 ms 8 ms xe-0-1-0.r20.hstntx01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250
.2.228]
8 15 ms 16 ms 14 ms as-0.r20.dllstx09.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.3.1
29]
9 17 ms 17 ms 16 ms ge3-0.cr02.dal01.pccwbtn.net [206.223.118.48]
10 54 ms 50 ms 48 ms unitedonline.ge2-5.br01.lax01.pccwbtn.net [63.21
8.25.14]
11 52 ms 57 ms 57 ms ve113.r1.bu3.lax.untd.com [64.136.1.171]
12 51 ms 48 ms 57 ms pop.communityarchitect.com [64.136.25.170]
Trace complete.
communityarchitect.com
northsky.com
freeservers.com
direct-connect.com
tell me if you can connect through Comcast
these three are the chain I chased at work.
Now from home I do a tracert
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
C:Documents and SettingsTruXter>tracert 50megs.com
Unable to resolve target system name 50megs.com.
C:Documents and SettingsTruXter>
It has been confirmed by my Domain Host that Comcast is surely blocking all of 50megs.com domain hosting from being connected by Comcast users !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Message today 1-15-08 from 50megs.com
We have contacted Comcast and have ticket open with them. They are working to clear out the cache and correct the outage issues.
We have resolved the issues on this side.
It should be up and running shortly. Mike
Mysite Customer Service
Original Message Follows: ————————
Form Message
| Complaint: | Looks like comcast is blocking all connection to 50 megs. I can not connect to my site or the file manager located on 50megs.com |
| Full Name: | Mr. TruXter |
| Email Address: | XXXX@comcast.net |
| Web Site URL: | iworkwithpeople.com |
| Partner Domain: | 50megs.com |
| service_level: | 213 |
| user_agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11 |
| Java Script: | YES |
| Application Name: | Netscape |
| Application Version: | 5.0 (Windows; en-US) |
| Subject: | MWS-Complaints: Looks like comcast is blocking all connection to 5 |
Message from comcast today 1-15-08
Dear Customer, Thank you for contacting Comcast Cable. I understand that you are experiencing difficulties with your Comcast service. Offering our customers the most effective possible support is a priority at Comcast. We appreciate that you have given us this opportunity to communicate with you and we want to address your concerns as quickly as possible. Although most issues can be addressed from within the email forum, in some cases "Live Interaction" is necessary as this issue will have to be escalated for resolution. In order to assist you, we ask that you use the link below to open a "Chat session" with a representative or call us using the information provided. http://www.comcastsupport.com/chat If you require assistance and prefer to speak to a representative: Please call us at 1-800-COMCAST (266-2278) - Customer Care and Internet Support 24/7 If you need further assistance, please feel free to respond directly to this email. We appreciate you taking the time to contact us. Thank you for choosing Comcast. Sincerely, Tonya Comcast Customer Care Specialist ************************************************** The response contained in this message is intended for the addressee only and may vary from other responses depending on geography, promotional campaigns or other factors. If you are not the intended recipient of this response, please delete this message. Any unauthorized use or dissemination of the information contained in this message is prohibited. ************************************************** Original Message Follows: ------------------------ Comments: Comcast houston blocking my domain. I own a website, through 50megs.com I can connect to my file manager on sbc dls, I can connect through sprint dsl and I have connected at work with a t3 line, but when I get home or to any of my friend''s houses with comcast I can not connect to 50megs.com . I am near time to re up on my domain name and hosting bills and getting really frustrated that I can not connect from home where i feel safe. I want to connect to my service and it appears you are blocking me. Please look into this and solve this issue. IPAddress: 98.XXX.X.XXX
Kinda looks like they sent me a bunch of nothing from comcast.. feels like I am trying to teach my cat how to pee in the toilet.
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Someone sent me a link to a proxy thingy for myspace
and it actually worked, just typed in my web site address and bamI whent directly to my site. I did not type in my password or anything though, I really do not know if I trust a third party site like that… ya know? so if you are on comunismcast or any service that can not see my site right now, gie that a try. see for your self that you are actually blocked.
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I get complaints all the time from prospective clients who tell me they are unable to access my site: http://www.turnkeyproperties.org I immediately ask them if they are using Comcast? The answer is always yes, so the question is why the hell does Comcast block my real estate website?
I called them to ask, I spoke with some low level techie who also was unable to access my site. His response was that Comcast does not block any sites.
Odd because I still get complaints all the time that Comcast blocks my site.
I could understand if it were something vile but for Gods sake it’s a real estate site.
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Hey I completely understand at first I thought I screwed up my connection/pc or something…. newp
also man, look into http://starlitefundinginc.com and see if you two can get a cross promotion going ( that’s my sister’s company).
they do real estate loans and stuff, same field different categories .
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As a Com-crack user, I can confirm that turnkeyproperties.org would not resolve or ping. As for the the one Truxter is talking about, which domain are you speaking of?? Never found it clearly linked for testing.
Is one of those domains listed in “trace complete”?
communityarchitect.com – Yes, can connect
northsky.com )which refreshes to the site above) yes
freeservers.com Yes
direct-connect.com No, but does not time out, either. It is trying to hit 208.185.127.189 which is currently not a server that is up.
I did however, test turnkeyproperties.org on the other hand. This turned out to be literally blocked based on a lot of testing.
I was able to connect to all
but directconnect.com.
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after a week, we are finally back up. I connected without dns modifications last night.
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oddly enough, I can access the websites above. I am having similar issues with my website– shannonkish.com which is hosted by detroithosting.net
I cannot access any websites located on detroithosting.net servers, including my own.
How did you get this resolved with Comcast?
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My issue was resolved after almost 2 weeks,
But for now
i would suggest you go to OPENDNS
Click the “get started” button. read everything they tell you before you save anything.
done right , everything will be fine, as long as it’s done right.
Good luck man.
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