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Re: Call control doesn’t block or identify private/unknown callers
As per Telus, if it’s blocked, the callerID (attribute I’m assuming, through SS7), is never sent out in the first place. Especially if it comes from another network. If it came from a Telus mobility subscriber, perhaps they could figure it out if they really needed to. Interesting what Bugs is saying though. Since the caller passed call control already, that means subsequent calls could get through without having to pass again. Which could lead to automated floods of calls.8.2KViews1like0CommentsRe: Call control doesn’t block or identify private/unknown callers
Spoke with Telus on this out of curiosity. The call does not show up on incoming call logs, but only shows up on the call control log. They said since the number was blocked by caller, what’s needed for callerID, isn’t sent out in the first place. So no way for them to ever identify who it was. Call control should allow for us to have option to block unidentified calls.8.3KViews1like0CommentsCall control doesn’t block or identify private/unknown callers
Hello, I have call control enabled on my account. A private caller was able to “pass screening”. The private caller is listed in the call control list as passed screening as well. I thought call control would take care of this ? I guess if someone is there and presses the appropriate key as requested by call control, it doesn’t matter if they’re blocked. This should be something Telus should allow us to stop. So basically anyway can call blocked, and you’ll never know who it was.8.5KViews0likes7CommentsWifi sticker cards replacements
Hello, I was wondering if anyone knows where Telus gets the wifi sticker cards made that show the wifi information, it’s same one that is stuck on the side of your modem. I’d like to make a few more and stick them in a few different places in a rental property I have. I’ve misplaced the originals. I could always just leave sticky notes around but was seeing if it was possible to reprint the originals. Thank you1.3KViews0likes0CommentsRe: Been getting Odd IP addresses for quite sometime
After taking this one step further and using tethered internet from my laptop rather then trying to understand things from my phone itself. Sure enough the 207.228.78.x address was acquired as the public IP of the laptop. Out of curiosity, after additional research to understand these 10.187.x.x hops it appears to be a FreeBSD configuration with Splunk integration. So, it's definitely not a cell site simulator causing this and is done at the Telus carrier level, as I was far away from my building acquiring this IP. It appears and correct me if I’m wrong this would be Telus's way of monitoring their mobile traffic/user activity using FreeBSD with Splunk Integration, all data that passes through this integration is indexed, and searchable. (Completely normal) Telus does however offer deals on Norton VPN which in Splunk would show the user connecting to VPN/duration etc, which is fine and normal. Interesting stuff and makes sense now, all came up out of curiosity in understanding why I'm listed in Calgary when 207 is my public IP, and why so many different hops with TraceRoute when acquiring this 207.address, this specific IP pool is in Calgary. I'll assume this is all normal and nothing out of the ordinary is going on here and everyone else in Alberta should experience this type of behavior at some point where their searches list them in Calgary or whatsmyip lists them in Calgary, which makes it annoying when trying to look up a local business and one example would be you’re on a Canadian tire website and the stock shows the item available but it’s out of stock. If you’re not paying attention to your location picked up by Canadian tire you may travel to the store to find out the item is out of stock 🙂 Probably happens In other provinces as well, and most likely other carriers using this technology. Would be great to get a Telus response from someone on the networking side or is this something they will be fixing (mobile location issues) as someone already posted, It happens. Not urgent and I won’t be updating this thread anymore.. thanks to those who initially chimed in.9.2KViews0likes0CommentsRe: Been getting Odd IP addresses for quite sometime
Replying to myself once more here. I was assigned the 207.228.x.x address again while in my building, here is the full trace route the Edmonton.ca: 01, 02, 03, etc represents a hop. 01 75.153.170.244 02 10.187.15.243 O 3 10.187.165.8 10.187.165.17 05 10.187.165.65 06 10.187.15.163 7 10.187.18.1 08 10.187.18.2 0 9 10.187.253.132 010 011 154.11.12.219 012 74.125.50.110 013 108.170.245.113 014 142.251.50.245 35.190.75.248 O 15 248.75.190.35.bc.googleusercontent.com Here’s the route when getting what I think is a normal IP 192.166.185.x: 100.123.66.55 02 100.123.66.138 O 3 100.123.66.141 100.123.65.162 05 0 6 154.11.12.217 7 74.125.50.110 08 108.170.245.113 0 9 142.251.241.137 010 35.190.75.248 As you can see from both traces it eventually gets to 154.11.12.x which is Telus’s most likely the gateway out to the internet after multiple hops across the country. (Seems to exit internal nat all the way out in Ottawa). My question at this point is, anyone else see this behaviour, and is it possible someone in my building is running a tool that would capture everything (cell site simulator) for nefarious purposes. Or, given I’ve seen this outside my building as well, would Telus be assigning this IP, and could my phone be in some strange pool ? How does Telus choose to assign IP addresses, I heard it’s based on location. I either get 1 of 2 IP ranges I’ve listed In this post. What’s strange is last year my phone seemed to have some kind of host name and I was running on a network called “interbaun communications”, when I’m a Telus Mobility subscriber. Almost seems like they contract out their wireless communications handling, e.g the towers, etc or anything to do with it. They do contract out everything else like home services installations and such, could they also contract out the cell towers and let someone else handle it. If so then those contractors could in theory do whatever they wanted as long as the phones are connected and functioning, just seems a bit odd and I’ve finally posted publicly here on the forum about it.9.3KViews0likes1CommentRe: Been getting Odd IP addresses for quite sometime
Hello, The odd IP address that firmly lists me as 3 hours south of Edmonton was reassigned to me yesterday: 207.228.78.14 was what I acquired. I then ran a trace route to Edmonton.ca (good test route), and the hops were as follows: 96.1.138.29 02 10.187.15.240 O 3 10.187.165.8 O 4 10.187.165.14 05 10.187.165.65 ~6 10.187.15.163 07 10.187.18.1 08 10.187.18.2 10.187.253.132 Unfortunately I stopped the trace before it reached its destination. Next time it happens I’ll be sure to get the full output. I then rebooted my phone to acquired the 198.166.x.x address and trace routes were different: 100.123.66.55 02 100.123.66.138 O 3 100.123.66.141 100.123.65.162 О 4 05 O 6 154.11.12.219 07 74.125.50.110 08 108.170.245.113 O 9 142.251.55.199 010 35.190.75.248 Seems 100.123.x.x made a bit more sense then the 10.187.x.x addresses in the 207.228 trace route output. I’ve brought this up with telus before and they believe it’s normal my phone appears to be In Calgary. They said if I went as far as Halifax for example it should change and not reflect Calgary. (This is without using location services and getting an exact gps location of course, we’re talking strictly IP addresses, and where the internet thinks I am, which is what my browsers report, and other websites).9.4KViews0likes2CommentsRe: Been getting Odd IP addresses for quite sometime
Thanks for the reply. No matter how much cycling I’ve done: - Hard reboot of iPhone (volume up/down quickly then hold side button till apple logo appears) - reset network settings - toggle mobile data on/off - toggle airplane mode on/off - wipe/clean install of iOS (using iTunes/don’t restore backup) The result on most occasions is that 207.228 pool showing me in SE Calgary.9.5KViews0likes0CommentsRe: Been getting Odd IP addresses for quite sometime
Thanks, yes somewhat similar. My IP doesn’t change that much though. Which is why I’m curious. For me this has been going on since about Aug 2020. Where my phone is in the same address pool 207.228.78.0/24. Since it’s been in that pool for so long my guess is it’s based either on account or phone number where they have their own logical grouping probably by sim (imsi ) Or it was placed there. I get 1 of 254 of those addresses in the pool. I’ll be heading out of AB soon so I’ll see if being somewhere else in the country still results in my phone being in that pool. Just found it strange with the trace routes travelling across the country internally before leaving the gateway. No VPNs enabled iCloud relay disabled. I guess I could ask, anyone else in Edmonton in the same pool 207.228.78.0 or the 198.166.64.0? Also the gateway net range 25.0.0.0 previously used by UK MoD (this one however is also known that these old UK DoD (MoD) leased back the IPs they had due to internet running low on IPv4 addresses. As for overall performance, mobile Internet runs fine.9.6KViews0likes7Comments