The question is purely academic. I am not having technical issues and I am NOT asking for technical support.

I understand that technically, my ISP had probably choked the previous port.

I also know that some nation states, organizations or other actors - such as ISPs - block Tor connections for whatever (political?) reasons.

What I don’t understand is what legal grounds they have to do this. I have read the Terms of Service. Twice. And there is nothing explicit about having specific ports blocked for whatever reason. It does say that they have the right to limit my bandwidth if they deem that my usage is impacting their other customers’ connection negatively. Perhaps they somehow force it into this paragraph? As in, according to them, running a Tor relay doesn’t count as “normal use”?

If you have any experience or knowledge on the matter, please advise. 😊

The question is purely academic. I am not having technical issues and I am NOT asking for technical support.

  • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexusEnglish
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    13 days ago

    My ISP uses fiber to local substations and then uses the cable network (copper-based) for providing service in the apartments - currently they are able to push 2Gbps down / 100Mbps up using these old-ass coaxial cables and in a densely populated area, which is pretty impressive if taking into account that the city started building that network in a public/private partnership, and originally just used for TV (even getting an upstream in those networks was pretty tricky IIRC and wasn’t viable in the beginning) in the late 80s - my first connection from them was 300kbps, and that was blazing fast for the time!

    If it’s traffic shaping, you might try to find out. I looked around, and you can either try using wireshark to see if something fishy is going on, or you might try https://github.com/marcelscode/glasnost , but that tool is pretty old and i don’t know how reliable it is nowadays. At least it’s java based, so it should run anyways.

    Edit: I just saw you mentioned that you were just using 20Mbps. There’s no way that has any impact even when on a shared medium for other users in you area, so that theory can be canned.

    • printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
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      13 days ago

      Nonetheless, this is a great opportunity for me to read up on traffic shaping! Thanks!

      And, wow, 2 Gbps down on a coaxial? Sick! Maybe that’s all the bandwidth freed up from people not watching cable television anymore? 🤣