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For most non-tech people the only router in the house is the one the ISP provided, forcing ISPs to punish their customers for the ISPs misdeeds is odd.
by stonemetal12 3y ago
For most non-tech people the only router in the house is the one the ISP provided, forcing ISPs to punish their customers for the ISPs misdeeds is odd.
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- dylan604 3y agoThis used to happen back in dial-up days and malware using the home connection as and SMTP SPAM attack. The ISP would prevent you from getting online. Eventually, they just blocked that port from all home users. Since the modem connected directly, there weren't really firewalls yet. It was the stone ages, but people definitely had their accounts blocked for having an infected machine