[asterisk-biz] Is ISP Blocking VoIP

[Mark Phillips]

The fella's at MIT spent an awful lot of time and money demonstrating 
that the tin foil hat did nothing to protect one from mind 
rays/microwaves/government propaganda/whatever.

Particularly useless was the "Fez" type which when exposed to 1.2GHz of 
RF actualy had a concentrating effect much like the pringles "cantenna".

Mark

Mark, G7LTT/KC2ENI
Randolph, NJ
http://www.g7ltt.com


Rusty Shackleford wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com 
>>[mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
>>Mark Phillips
>>Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 2:13 PM
>>To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
>>Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Is ISP Blocking VoIP
>>
>>
>>Or is it?
>>
>>Assuming that the ITSP is SIP based why not move the port 
>>from 5060 to 
>>something else?
>>
>>Granted they might be looking at trhe flavour of the packets 
>>but perhaps 
>>they are not.
>>
>>Of one has to supply the customer with an ATA why not make it 
>>an IAX one?
> 
> 
> Again....
> 
> These schemes might be effective, temporarily, but playing cat and mouse
> with ports and the ISPs' attempts to dick with traffic is not a
> practical business model.
> 
> Honestly, this behavior on the part of the ISP's doesn't surprise me in
> the least. Conside those cases where the ISP is also selling dialtone.
> VOIP traffic crossing their network, and NOT belonging to them, is
> competition. Given that the major communications companies have a
> history of aggressively protecting their revenues, and given that the
> current regulatory climate has been bought and paid for by those
> companies, it doesn't surprise me at all. 
> 
> <tin_foil_hat=on>
> This is but an early skirmish in the war for the Internet, folks.
> Video-on-demand may well be the next round. That "holy grail" of the
> media giants is just around the corner, and don't think for a minute
> that your cable company/ISP will stand idly by and watch you order your
> movies from "moviesnow.blockbuster.com" if they can get away with
> dicking with the feed and offering you "a more reliable" alternative.
> <tin_foil_hat=off>
> 
> - Rusty
> 
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