New Cable Modem blocking TOR?

I've been using the TOR browser bundle under Windows for several weeks now to watch British television while in the US. However, today I received a new cable modem/wireless router combo unit from TimeWarner Cable, and suddenly TOR no longer seems to be working properly.

I have in my config file:

StrictNodes 1
ExitNodes TorLand1,TorLand2

That config has been working great until today. The new unit is am Arris DG860A, not sure what the original modem was.

The test is that if I visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer then I can view the Radio player, but not the TV player, and am given the message that the content is locked to the UK region.

deltaseven

Posted 2013-10-10T00:04:46.150

Reputation: 1

The NSA or GCH has probably de-anonymized you and figured out you're not in the UK.

– martineau – 2013-10-10T00:18:26.060

Its very unlikely that the modem is blocking TOR traffic in the USA. – Ramhound – 2013-10-10T00:45:44.637

I thought so, too. And I appear to have a UK IP address and the ExitNode is working properly. But I can not for the life of me figure it out. – deltaseven – 2013-10-10T01:03:40.803

test it with the tor live cd. either you are leaking location info, or they have blocked known exit nodes. https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#LiveCD

– Frank Thomas – 2013-10-10T02:08:38.640

1Maybe BBC has their database updated to block that Tor exit node? Maybe try a different exit node located in UK? – Darius – 2013-10-10T02:09:11.723

When you use a service that reports your IP does it report your IP or a IP in the UK? – Scott Chamberlain – 2013-10-10T05:04:47.043

Hey - it reports a UK IP – deltaseven – 2013-10-10T11:30:18.760

New Cable Modem blocking TOR?

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