Suddenly this week I noticed that after a couple of days of troubleshooting my setup, that my ISP is blocking access to certain UK VPN servers. Is it as simple as the ISP having the IP address and blocking traffic to it ?
Others in another forum using the same ISP also cannot access the same servers, so definitely the ISP.
Weird, maybe they don’t want people bypassing some filtering.
Can’t arrest you for mean tweets if they can’t find you, that’s my guess.
Are any other VPNs allowed, or do you think this will be a growing list of things that get blocked? Have you contacted the ISP to see what’s happening? Response will probably need to be sent to prominent online news outlets. I say this because you probably know what the answer might be.
Whilst the UK is falling apart, I contacted the ISP and they said they don’t use blocklists. On the one hand, other Air VPN users from other ISP would have been in touch with Air, but it turns out it’s one ISP Community Fibre on the other hand it seems plausible that the ISP use Blocklists and the UK IP addresses have been added.
I don’t believe there is a nefarious plot but it’s obviously the direction the UK is going.
VPN blockage by ISPs is violating internet neutrality and is illegal in the EU - oh wait Brexit - lol
Pretty sure there are ISP’s in Europe who have blocked VPNs, knowingly or unknowingly
Seems that the ISP has blocked a range to addresses passed out by https://m247.com/ a hosting company. At least that is the common factor amongst all the servers that cannot be reached.
Looks more like the ISP does use a blocklist though they say they don’t, however, they probably don’t inspect the addresses that show up too closely.
We had a customer in England that was with 3 mobile internet. Had a static ip on the account. They insist they aren’t blocking any ports, but the proxy server they were using didn’t work on that connection, so they clearly are blocking some ports.
You should take a look at xrayvpn. They are unique because they establish VPN connection over port TCP 443 which ISP`s wont block. I havent personally used their service, so please do your research before using them. I saw this on Netgate forums because this VPN is used to bypass great firewall of China.
The port didn’t matter, the IP address of the hosting server must have been on a blocklist held by the ISP, when I connected to another hosting server there was no problem. In the end, I’m guessing the blocklist was updated and IP addresses were removed as I was able to later connect.