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Re: RBR850 blocking certain websites

schumaku
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Re: RBR850 blocking certain websites

Amazing how people don't want to listen.

 

Worth reading:

Potentially related:

Part 2 should be easy to answer (unless the recent user which got the same public IP address triggered this)

Part 3 might be caused by malware or similar.

 

You won't get anywhere wasting Comcast/Xfinity helpdesk resources.

 

 

 

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kskreider
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Re: RBR850 blocking certain websites

Hello @schumaku, thank you for the links.

 

It was not that I would not listen it is that your first post resembled broken English and I could not understand what you were asking. I wrote that I did not understand what you meant. I am a simple home user with simple tech skills, that is it.

 

In the end, your links were the most useful so far, so thank you very much!

 

I re-installed my old AX4200 system and after about a week random sites became blocked again. I clicked through some of the Akamai documentation behind your links and used their analysis tool and noticed they have my public IP address risk-flagged as a web scraper.

 

It appears that I need to send them information to do an investigation to unflag my IP.

 

I am an admitted data hoarder but I would not call my actions "data scraping" nor malicious in intent.

 

Thank you to everyone for everything, I will take this up with Akamai.

Message 27 of 28
kskreider
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Re: RBR850 blocking certain websites

I got nowhere with Xfinity and pleading for a new public IP.

 

I took the mesh system I was gifted to my elderly mother's home and set it up there since I thought that the site blocks were something tied to activity here but now she is getting blocked too.

 

It appears 1000% tied to the MAC Address of the ORBI somehow. I unwrapped and used a brand new CM1100 cable modem for her so it is not that.

 

I see LOTS of articles online about being blocked by Akamai but no way to resolve it. I tried to reach out to them to no avail.

 

Does anyone have any tips? This is clearly not something that we are doing. I am considering throwing the ORBI away, getting a new mesh system, switching providers for a year, and then switching back.

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