Quote from: Pasky08 on November 08, 2012, 10:55:05 PM

Ok so I just got off the phone with my ISP. They have been detecting a "virus" and have shut down my connection because they FEEL like I am infecting other people. Of course, what they are seeing is the IRC P2P activity from my miners. I told them it is not a virus and they refuse to accept my explanation. I told them I would turn off the program if they would just give my internet back (temporary fix).

My question to you guys is, what should I do now? Is there a way around my snooping ISP? I feel like I have two options right now, 1. Stop mining. 2. Change ISPs. Also I have been mining on and off for more than a year now.

Hoping some people can help me out here.

Has anyone else experienced anything like this?

This kind of thing has come up before, and in every case that I can recall, it turned out that the ISP wasn't really combating viri but trying to clamp down on Bittorrent or some other P2P tech that takes a lot of bandwidth. They can't really say it that way, though. Why would your miners be consuming a lot of bandwidth? You should only have one that is 'net facing while the rest just connect to each other and that one. If nothing else, you can port that one's connection over Tor, although that will slow things down. A ssh tunnel to an off-isp-network shell account would work well.