Port blocking... STILL?

[news]

[wireless]

So, this is directed at telus more than anything, but its customers should be aware of this...
There's been around a thread a month about this going back for a couple years. If you decided to run a web server, mail server, vpn, file storage, cctv system, home automation, or anything else that's in your home and accessible from outside, you'd drop all your money on the hardware, get home to set it up, and then find that it doesn't work because telus blocks all useful incoming ports.
There was a time when this would be an acceptable practice, but that was a long, long time ago. NO OTHER ISP - SHAW, BELL, EVEN THE SMALLER ONES - DOES THIS! It's telus' way of selling you a business package. If you want to set up a personal website or email or anything else, their response (I called about it today... again) is "we're not trained to change that, but if you want a business package", followed, essentially, by 'f*** you, you peasant, buy the **bleep** business package". This is unacceptable, enough already. This shows no benefit for security or privacy, and no benefit for telus, since someone running a commercial website would crash through their data limits almost instantly and get charged out the ass for it.
So Telus, please, just do the reasonable thing and stop blocking ports. Let your customers use the services they pay you for, before they start looking elsewhere. Between the service, the speed, the prices, the quality of the hardware we're forced to use, you guys cannot afford ANOTHER black spot on your reputation.


More...