[RVRC] Internet failure at the Lund residence

[Alexander Sack]

On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Scott Wilson <w2sjw at comcast.net> wrote:

>                 Susan has gotten to the point of total aggravation with
> Cablevision's inability to restore the phone, cable, & TV service at the
> house. She is cancelling service with them, and going over to FiOS.
>
>                 The tech committee & her have both spoken to Verizon about
> what we do with the service at her property. Residential FiOS service has
> port blocking in place that would make the use of Asterisk impossible,
> along
> with dynamic security measures that are designed to block VoIP traffic.
>

Vonage doesn't work on FIOS lines? And Skype calls? Also Cisco's VoIP
products?

I can tell you none of these are blocked to my CO and I have used VoIP
products without issue on FIOS. Not Asterisk though, but I find it very
hard to believe they are singling out Asterisk.

Are you sure this is just blocking a port (that's a nuisance, we can run it
on another port) or is this *really* traffic shaping/monitoring (literally
looking for SIP packets and dropping packets)? Even if that is the case, I
thought Asterisk allow for encrypted voice now so how would they know?

Does someone have any data points to the contrary that Asterisk will not
work on a residential FIOS line? I am now very curious.

-aps