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I honestly think the fault here is not technical, it's ISPs. Between the RIAA/MPAA breathing down their necks about piracy, and the realization they could make

I honestly think the fault here is not technical, it's ISPs. Between the RIAA/MPAA breathing down their necks about piracy, and the realization they could make a mint charging inflated "business rates" than letting you do what you wanted with your own damn internet connection, shit got locked up tight so fast no one even noticed. It's not NAT that's why my ISP is blocking half the protocols on the Internet. Why every ISP I've had for the last decade has blocked outgoing HTTP. Why I'd need to us a fucking VPN tunnel just to get SSH to my home computer. It's greed. It's the forgotten front of the net neutrality fight, and it's gone almost entirely ignored. We don't have the right to our own outgoing traffic anymore, and this has been the case for far longer than IP allocation has been an issue.

smittywerben 7y ago
> Why I'd need to us a fucking VPN tunnel just to get SSH to my home computer. My most recent disappointment was trying to mount an Azure SMB 3.0 network drive over port 445. It would function just like a network drive at work or school right? No more poorly made userland daemons i.e. Dropbox. Or any additional software, VPN, proxy, or admin rights for that matter. Just click “add network drive” button in explorer and paste in the URI. But nope port 445 is blocked by ISPs. So ironically the cheaper storage is only usuable by business internet plans. Which seems sorta atypical.
- stepbeek 7y ago
  I ran into this with a client recently. Unfortunately, they were already on the business plan. We ended up just hosting an OpenVPN server and having them connect automatically on startup.... This then broke Microsoft Office's ability to verify it still has a paid subscription.
- toast0 7y ago
  SMB ports being blocked is unfortunate, but it was probably the only reasonable response to all the worms and stuff that were going around on those ports.

smittywerben 7y ago

> Why I'd need to us a fucking VPN tunnel just to get SSH to my home computer. My most recent disappointment was trying to mount an Azure SMB 3.0 network drive over port 445. It would function just like a network drive at work or school right? No more poorly made userland daemons i.e. Dropbox. Or any additional software, VPN, proxy, or admin rights for that matter. Just click “add network drive” button in explorer and paste in the URI. But nope port 445 is blocked by ISPs. So ironically the cheaper storage is only usuable by business internet plans. Which seems sorta atypical.

stepbeek 7y ago
I ran into this with a client recently. Unfortunately, they were already on the business plan. We ended up just hosting an OpenVPN server and having them connect automatically on startup.... This then broke Microsoft Office's ability to verify it still has a paid subscription.
toast0 7y ago
SMB ports being blocked is unfortunate, but it was probably the only reasonable response to all the worms and stuff that were going around on those ports.