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Or to play the conspiracy theory card -- the government is tapping the line and it's not able to receive a reply correctly.
I'm on AT&T and it's not loading for me, right now.
Still working on Speakeasy and a local open wi-fi that seems to be on Verizon on my end.
I'm on Comcast, so I can confirm that not even a ping is getting through. And I'm using OpenDNS, so it's not DNS-level blocking. But after the mess Comcast has been in for this stuff before, I kind of can't believe they'd try it again. I'm in a chat with a Comcast rep now, who claims that if they were blocking the page there would be a branded error message. There's just nothing. Maybe (hopefully!) this isn't what it…
thepiratebay.org doesn't respond to pings from any network as far as I can tell, which is a typical firewall configuration. Judging by the comments on the article it's not Comcast blocking, but some kind of network configuration issue, as multiple ISPs are impacted (though they could in theory be using Comcast as a carrier).
I'm on Comcast, so I can confirm that not even a ping is getting through. And I'm using OpenDNS, so it's not DNS-level blocking. But after the mess Comcast has been in for this stuff before, I kind of can't believe they'd try it again. I'm in a chat with a Comcast rep now, who claims that if they were blocking the page there would be a branded error message. There's just nothing. Maybe (hopefully!) this isn't what it…
By the way – the web experience is just that the page hangs. There's no 404, or 'server can't connect' or any other warning message. This type block is indicative of someone throttling the connection to the server. Likely Comcast hasn't outright blocked the site, they've just made the pipe so small that no one can get to it.
I'm not entirely sure if this makes a difference. I just wanted to add that information since I had not mentioned it before. This information may or may not be helpful. In case it is, here it is.
I guess its been established that this is not a DNS issue. But I just wanted to point out that using Speakesy, no matter what DNS I use, speakeasy's own or OpenDNS, I CAN reach TPB. I'm not entirely sure if this makes a difference. I just wanted to add that information since I had not mentioned it before. This information may or may not be helpful. In case it is, here it is.
I'm on Comcast and also can't access TPB. Doing a tracert, the packets are lost in inside of TPB network. Thepiratebay.piratpartiet.se is as far as I can reach.
If they're intentionally blocking TPB traceroute data cannot be trusted.