Does your ISP WATCH you

I had trouble with my site and then discovered Verizon blocked port 80 to prevent customres from setting up webservers. My site worked when I redirected to port 1075 (as well as any other port). It worked and I had people from outsite my network view the site. Then an hour later it is down. Do you think Verizon detected this and shut down this port on me too??? I didnt change anything else.

Thanx

I suppose it's possible. If your isp blocks port 80 it's probably because your contract with them prohibits you from running a web server on their connection.

Doug, Do you think they would keep blocking more and more ports as they find out I have traffic on them? Which port would you use to redirect traffic on? Maybe MSN messenger?

I don't know, ask them maybe? Or get an account that allows you to run a server.

[Past Experiance]
If you do not have a Commercial Account with your ISP
and you are running Commercial OP's on your connection.
Your ISP are running a program that detect "Out-Bound" Traffic. ( Called Big Brother Caching Server ) they are able to tell if the outbound traffic is related to:
Web Interface ( Running a Commercial Web Server )
E-mail Traffic ( Send out a lot of e-mail )
Media Traffic ( Running a Media Server )

They will not touch your ports when "Mail" is envolved.
As they see it has a communication, and they cannot touch
Communication, it is illegal for them to do so.

If they detect that you are infact running
Web/FTP/Media Servers. Then yes they will continue to block all ports all the way down to your default ONLY ports.
110|25 <-- Mail
And the ports to allow you OUT
8080 --> Outbound Only

Be Carfull.
They can also terminate your account, and if they really want to be a-holes about it, they can take you to court and make you pay for the used/abused bandwidth, and man power
That is has taken to control your "Non-Commercial" Account.

So basically, you are playing with fire, and will eventually get burned.

carrzkiss