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Guys guys let me clear up some myths about this case..

1) ISP will never block your connections without permission. Unless you happen to live in China or a place where the government/company filters connections to certain hosts.

2) KC3 Kai or any other viewers does NOT perform any magic when fixing up issues that resides within network. A network issue whereby you get a blank screen where the game was supposed to sit or otherwise a grey/gray window with a sad face (Chrome) is like having someone deliberately yanked your network cable out of your computer or blocked your wireless from access. No matter what you try you won't solve a network issue when the cable has been yanked somewhere that you cannot reach.

3) In fact if you have an issue with your connection and that you have done everything that you reasonably could from your end, your first port of call is to contact your ISP. You could also raise up a discussion within various forums - even relevant local forums if there is such a thing but it may not get anywhere if none of you guys actually informed your ISP about it. This is like you being struck down with a flu but is unable to explain to your doctor why you're sick. They're not magicians - so you need to tell them exactly what is happening on your end. Paint them a picture so that it helps them solve your issue and not be stabbing in the dark. If they actually and physically blocked your connection they would have informed you promptly about it.

4) I have written up a blog entry about networking in a nutshell. I don't know why some of you won't even read it even though I have linked it to the bottom of this page (before the comments section). Networks are hardly different from the various sortie maps you see inside the game, but are actually far more complex in reality. They are all controlled by various countries, companies and their respective entities. Every various site you visit goes through different routes. Just because you visit facebook, twitter or even youtube for instance doesn't mean that the issue will be related to dmm.com. dmm.com is Japanese company, therefore the routes would go straight to Japan from your ISP. This will be evident if you used traceroute (except for the fact that your actual KC server cannot be tracerouted normally).

5) Now as for wanting to see if your KC server is down or not and this could probably be useful for pointing out your case to your ISP is to visit this site. Punch in the IP address of your KC server that you belong to. In my case because I belong to my KC server is therefore: 125.6.189.215 and I would punch exactly "125.6.189.215" (without quotes) into that site. The results shows that the site is up: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/125.6.189.215