Protonvpn.com Is Down
In Southern California
In Southern California
A measly $5.21. I'm disgusted.
Fortunately I had my credit locked so nothing bad happened.
If you don't have your credit locked I would do it right away. All 3 bureaus.
Turns out Spectrum now blocks TCP/UDP port 5060. My workaround is to use a VPN. After that, everything is fine.
This reddit thread https://www.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/t8nulq/spectrum_is_rate_limiting_voipsip_traffic_port/ suggests Spectrum was rate limiting 5060 on 300mbps plans, but not on the 100mbps plans.
I have the 100mbps plan, and it is definitely affected now.
So if you are in SoCal, using Spectrum, and your VOIP phones suddenly stopped working in the last week or so, maybe this will help you.
The software is out on [github](https://github.com/another2020githubuser/pi2fa-mvp). It is Python3 and Gtk. It uses Twilio as the back end.
Please take a look. And please take 5 seconds and take the [Poll](https://github.com/another2020githubuser/pi2fa-mvp/discussions/2).
Ask questions here, or use github discussions.
Thanks.
--edit to clarify rejected/accepted messages
This gets rejected: "(Error: 30007) Carrier violation. Your message content was flagged as going against Verizon carrier guidelines."
This does not get rejected: "(Error: 30007) Carrier violation. Your message content was flagged as going against carrier guidelines. Verizon"
This gets rejected: "(Error: 30007) Verizon Carrier violation. Your message content was flagged as going against carrier guidelines."
The only difference is adding the word Verizon in various places.
And by the way Verizon, why is a Twilio error message considered harmful enough to filter?