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My ISP is being blocked from various sites

Hello,



I am in a very awful situation right now, because I have been denied access to some websites that I consider as being essential. I'm being blocked by these sites because my (immature) younger brother decided he would have fun by spamming some forums that I was a regular user of. The admins/moderators of these sites must have gotten pretty ticked off, so they banned my entire ISP from connecting to their websites. I have a dynamic IP, so I tried disconnecting my internet, and then cleared all of my internet cookies, but this didn't work, so the sites definitely blocked my ISP.

Could I possibly get my ISP to change the city that my internet connects to? My ISP is very popular in this part of Canada, so perhaps they have additional ISP buildings in other cities that I could connect to? If I could do this, I know for sure that I'd be able to browse these sites again, I'd just have to password protect my computer to prevent my brother from using my PC again when I'm not around.

Just for the hell of it, I connected to the internet using my dialup modem, looked at the IP, and oddly enough it was coming from a different city than my high-speed connection (same ISP though). So do ISPs usually have ISP 'connect' buildings scattered about?

Please try to help me get back onto these sites. I'm not fond of proxy servers, and would just rather try to get my ISP to connect to a different city (if it's possible), or possibly get my ISP to do something else for me in order to allow me to get back onto these websites.

By the way, I sent my ISP an email explaining to them my situation. I haven't received a reply yet. Hopefully they'll be able to work something out for me.



Anyways, thanks. I hope I get a response soon.
 
I really fail to see how any of us can help? This is a civil matter between a web site owner and yourself, though the story of "it was a family member" is one we here at Aquiss here all too often :P

A web site owner can refuse or allow whoever they want to view their pages. You have no automatic right to have access.
 
Adding to what Paul said, most websites would not block an entire ISP, they're more likely to block a range of dynamic IP addresses associated with your account and these can fluctuate. In other words, you probably won't be banned forever. It's also worth trying a different browser like Opera or Firefox in case they're doing something browser based.

However at the end of the day your best bet is to contact the website admin, while being extremely polite and apologetic, and ask them to reinstate your account or allow you to reregister. Remember website admins have no way of knowing if what you say is even remotely true, they can only act upon what they see.
 
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They certainly didn't block the numbers of my IP, so they probably blocked the 'DYNAMIC.MYISP' part of my IP. All I have to do to change the numbers in my IP is disconnect and reconnect the internet, and voila, the numbers in my IP will change.

I have tried getting in touch with the moderators of these websites by using a friend's computer (he's on a different ISP), but all they end up doing is blocking access from his computer. I feel like I'm screwed here, and really don't want to be, nor do I feel like I deserve to be.

Do websites usually automatically lift the bans on IPs with time? Could my ISP change what it says beside my IP if I were to call them? Do ISPs usually have ways to help customers bypass these site blocks?

My brother-in-law happens to work for the ISP I'm on. He'd possibly be able to do something for me, but I can't be sure.
 
They're more likely to block a range of dynamic IP addresses associated with your account and these can fluctuate.

One of those sites was a site that I was only on for a few days, so no, it couldn't have been that. They had to have blocked the 'DYNAMIC.MYISP' part of my IP. That means that everyone who shares my ISP in this part of my country (who uses a broadband connect), must also be blocked from those websites.

This is depressing. It seems highly unethical for a website to block an entire ISP in order to prevent one person from accessing their site. Hell, they're probably blocking half a million people just over what my friend did!

I'm probably switching to a much better ISP soon anyway, so I shan't run into any problems when I make the switch.

My current ISP has downstream speeds of 4.5 MBPS (when maxed out), and upstream speeds of 0.4 MBPS (when maxed out). The ISP I want to switch to will have downstream speeds of 8 MBPS (when maxed out), and upstream speeds of 1.5 MBPS (when maxed out). To me, this sounds really fast for a North American ISP, but I may be wrong. Is this quite fast to you guys?

I was really excited when I heard of this ISP that I'll probably be changing to.

They also have a package where you can get up to 10 MBPS downstream and 1.5 MBPS upstream. The only bad thing is that the package for the 10 MBPS downstream is extremely expensive. It costs $120 a month, while the package I want to get will only cost $80 a month (which isn't very much considering the excellent speeds I will be obtaining once switching to this service).

Going from 8 MBPS downstream to 10 MBPS downstream doesn't really matter so much to me, so paying $40 to make my connection 2 MBPS quicker wouldn't be justifiable (unless I was a millionaire). I am actually quite content with the current downstream speeds I am obtaining. It's really the upstream speeds that matter a lot to me, since I upload a lot of stuff.
 
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Are you sure they are not saying UPTO 8MBPS??

A lot of people fall for this trick, it could be you will get exactly the same speeds from the new ISP, because these are the highest speeds your phone line can handle.


For them to block your friends IP as well means that whatever your (cough) brother (cough) did was really, really bad!!! I doubt you are going to get them to let you back on, and if changing ISP's lets you back into these sites, I suggest you never mention the problem, or you are likely to get blocked again!!!

Finally I suggest you ensure you have a good strong password set-up on your PC, to stop any further problems with relatives.

BTW I got blocked from a website recently, I still do not know why; they denied I was blocked, but blocked I was. I got round it by going through an anonymous proxy; look them up, there are plenty out there.
Eventually the block was lifted, but I still do not know why I was blocked in the first place; the only time they ever told me off was for using the word "Raghead" in a news article.
 
Adding to what Paul said, most websites would not block an entire ISP, they're more likely to block a range of dynamic IP addresses associated with your account and these can fluctuate. In other words, you probably won't be banned forever. It's also worth trying a different browser like Opera or Firefox in case they're doing something browser based.

However at the end of the day your best bet is to contact the website admin, while being extremely polite and apologetic, and ask them to reinstate your account or allow you to reregister. Remember website admins have no way of knowing if what you say is even remotely true, they can only act upon what they see.
yeah believe most there able to unblock that..thanks for the tips.



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