Is RCN Blocking Revver?
I like to use the video sharing site Revver to host the movies I make of life in DC – they share ad revenue and offer a few more options than YouTube.
But recently, I’ve noticed that the Revver URL will not resolve if I try to access it from my home. Also, sites with embedded Revver videos are slow to load as the missing video holds up the browser’s rendering of the web page. At first I thought Revver was down, then I checked my Internet connection.
Revver works fine on my neighbour’s Verizon-provided Internet and other ISPs around DC. Its only RCN accounts that seem to be unable to access Revver.
So is RCN blocking access to Revver? And if so, why?
Calls to RCN tech support go into holding patterns beyond human patience, and end with telling me to restart my router again. Like that does anything.
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8 Responses to “Is RCN Blocking Revver?”
November 7th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Are you telling me that all of DC sees Revver except me?
November 7th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Or no one uses it :)
November 7th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
I am on RCN and keep getting network timeout errors while trying to connect.
November 8th, 2008 at 5:52 am
Huh, then RCN really is blocking Revver. How odd. I wonder why? And how can we get them to stop?
November 9th, 2008 at 7:03 am
It’s not necessarily that RCN is blocking Revver. It could simply be a routing issue on one of the hops. Most internet traffic takes a half dozen or more hops across multiple vendors’ networks to connect.
Use a network tool like traceroute (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traceroute) to figure out where the traffic between you and Revver.com is getting tossed into the void.
Of course, if this is persisting for days or weeks, then it’s likely a block (or *really* shoddy network management, which is not unheard of).
November 9th, 2008 at 11:40 am
Suggestion: Change your DNS settings to use OpenDNS. 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 This will help if RCN is simply messing with their name servers.
November 9th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Greg & Michael,
Thanks for the tips, I wish I could check RCN with them now, but I’m now on a business trip in Kenya for the next two weeks. I’d love it if another RCN customer could check this out in the mean time
November 10th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
I originally read this at Is the RNC blocking Revver and thought everyone was being a bit paranoid.
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