ISP's meddling with bitcoin protocol?

[tspacepilot]

I've complained a few times about how irregular confirmations are and I'm starting to troubleshoot to identify the issue and one thing I noticed is when I'm connected to my vpn, which routes my internet through it, my transactions are almost instant.  When I disable and its just home internet, Comcast, my transactions are sporadic and can some times take over 1 hour.

Once the network sees your transaction, your internet connection has nothing to do with how quickly your transactions get confirmed.  Any anecdotal evidence you think you've seen to the contrary is due to selective memory and normal variations in a small sample size.

Perhaps a little harsh, but pithy and to the point.  Humans are poor at this sort of task, it's best to look at a large random sample size and calculate a mean.

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[PHP.guru]

What happens if the government try to stop the protocol? What i the most practical way to go around their attempts to block ports etc?

[freedomno1]

What happens if the government try to stop the protocol? What i the most practical way to go around their attempts to block ports etc?

There is no practical way to stop the blockchain as long as their is net neutrality its just a ledger of transactions that can be downloaded from the internet like anything else.
If it could be blocked then we have a bigger problem because this means that the government has destroyed net neutrality.

The solution to that would be a bitcoin based protocol like Namecoin perhaps that said  Bitcoin nodes are decentralized worldwide so it's not like it is possible to block all the ports and communications would still exist.

The network would operate and miners would still be mining so updating the Blockchain would always be possible
https://blockchain.info/nodes-globe
http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-nodes-need/

If you install a new client just download up to the latest blockchain would also work as well
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/blockchain/

Think I covered the possible solutions if off feel free to correct me.

[luckypyrate]

 OpenMesh has a really good central management utility called CloudTrax.  There is a way to set it up where a part of the over-the-air configuration isolates all the nodes so no one could access the other's stuff.  I have also used EnGenius units for wireless bridging or long range/wide spectrum WiFi.  It seems to be a basically scaled down version of the cellphone antennas you see around town.