Please explain the above, I don't understand what is ICMP and why Maxis is blocking it?
And why with the block, our speed will be faster?

well this morning around 1~2AM , got confirmation from here

ICMP is a ping echo protocol, not like UDP or TCP,..

and those sharing the same tower with us, so after maxis blocking the ICMP echo ping protocol, no more bypass to become unlimited... and the tower base station will be much more less congested especially in some student area,..

my area on the spot see the different, Ping become 34~38ms and upload speed shoot max 3.4~3.6Mbps, and Download speed on single channel also turbo to Max,..

This post has been edited by chuahcs79: Sep 26 2012, 01:55 PM

Do u mean Maxis block ping @@"

yes maxis is officially blocking ICMP echo ping protocol ,.. so those Proxy, VPN and all those base on ICMP wont working anymore , it is official now

Who is so bad? I pity the users.
I don't think that my speed will be fastened by a lot if these users are not allowed to use VPN.

wow.. then it will be more difficult to diagnose network connectivity issue by not using ping and trace route..

yea, so those method also wont work anymore,

need to figure new diagnose method for network connectivity issue

i still can use VPN to watch hulu.com with my maxis 3g right ?

a lot of proxy and vpn last time base on UDP or TCP...

and now they are all heading to ICMP,.. it literally can bypass any telco with ping echo protocol,..

and guess now it wont work anymore since maxis just block it totally

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Added on September 26, 2012, 2:07 pmif your vpn is not base on ICMP , then it will works

This post has been edited by chuahcs79: Sep 26 2012, 02:07 PM

I really hope with this blockage it will not affect my company's VPN, I need to work from home.

If this is blocked, I'm so going to kill the culprit.

There are people who need VPN for better thing.

no worry.. normal VPN wont use ICMP tunnel..
those VPN that want to bypass only purposely tunnel it through ICMP..

This post has been edited by ywkwy: Sep 26 2012, 02:14 PM

I hope so. I need to connect to Singapore and Germany server.

normal company vpn a lot of them not using ICMP,.

so no worries

my office vpn pakai ipsec. no issue

ICMP port blocked... No wonder all my SKMM friend are flooding FB wall by complaining maxis = ="
My speed here still same haizz...

well my speed does obvious improve as soon as i heard ICMP is block and i reboot my router get a amazing IP, speed, Lantency too,

weird huh

Really? I go reboot mine as well, see is there any improvement

hope it does improve the speed..speed in iPoh is pathetically slow... max. 2mbps only....last night around 1mbps..full signal

i still using the vpn for access to some sites, not hoping on vpn for bypassing anymore, too unreliable

it will if ur area a lot of student or always super congested,

i guess my area a lot of that,. that's why improvement happen on the spot