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Originally Posted by GeoffC
And if I give my ISP the offending IP address, I cannot understand why they maintain they cannot block it .... and I must rely on my firewall ....
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First off, it's likely a dynamic IP, which means it might belong to a spambot one day and your cousin the next.
Second off, it sets a bad precedent for the ISP; there are roughly 4 billion IP addresses, many changing hands regularly (see above reason).
At any rate, you must have a really powerful antenna if a machine on the mainland is making it all the way to your wifi.