thegladiator
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Hi friends , I switched to aritel 256 Kbps from my local ISP to Airtel .
I never expected an ISP to block IRC . I dont believe in their Virus attack claim to block a common port like 6667 . I heard some techie ( he was incidentally the head of DSL ) say port 6668 is not blocked ( Is it posible that airtel atleast open this port for us ? ) . I did a http://www.pcflank.com , Advanced Port Scanner test and this is what it showed in my machine -> 6667 Stealthed and all others closed . This is absolutely pathetic and I cant think of a good explanation for doing such a menial and despecable act . Worldwide , almost every ISP provides IRC connectivity and IRC is one of the backbones of open source development . Why doesn't Airtel install the good security solutions rather than go around blocking ports ?
Airtel is doing nothing less than lowballing by claiming their connection is cheap at 999 Rs per month .The net effect is that their users cant do no downloads and just use the Web and Email which means they get a higher profit margin . I am way too annoyed with this and thats the reason I thought we have to do something about this . The reality is that any ISP that offers no such restriction is better than a 256 Kbps Airtel connection in terms of effective usage .
You cant call it a broadband without IRC .
I havent tested torrents till now and I use Azureus client on my Linux machine . How good is the speed if at all you are getting connected ? Do you get the Max speeds ? Does other p2p's work ?
Can someone tell me and other what do about this ?
What about all the grieved customers writing a mass petition ?
Hope you guys help us out to create a better connected India
Thanks
Max
I never expected an ISP to block IRC . I dont believe in their Virus attack claim to block a common port like 6667 . I heard some techie ( he was incidentally the head of DSL ) say port 6668 is not blocked ( Is it posible that airtel atleast open this port for us ? ) . I did a http://www.pcflank.com , Advanced Port Scanner test and this is what it showed in my machine -> 6667 Stealthed and all others closed . This is absolutely pathetic and I cant think of a good explanation for doing such a menial and despecable act . Worldwide , almost every ISP provides IRC connectivity and IRC is one of the backbones of open source development . Why doesn't Airtel install the good security solutions rather than go around blocking ports ?
Airtel is doing nothing less than lowballing by claiming their connection is cheap at 999 Rs per month .The net effect is that their users cant do no downloads and just use the Web and Email which means they get a higher profit margin . I am way too annoyed with this and thats the reason I thought we have to do something about this . The reality is that any ISP that offers no such restriction is better than a 256 Kbps Airtel connection in terms of effective usage .
You cant call it a broadband without IRC .
I havent tested torrents till now and I use Azureus client on my Linux machine . How good is the speed if at all you are getting connected ? Do you get the Max speeds ? Does other p2p's work ?
Can someone tell me and other what do about this ?
What about all the grieved customers writing a mass petition ?
Hope you guys help us out to create a better connected India
Thanks
Max