ESP8266 Ardunio Network connection Issues

When my Ardunio Nano + ESP8266 project connects to my home router the project shows offline in the app and I keep getting Blynk Notification’s on the iphone about every 5 secs that the the project went offline. When I connect the project to a iphone based hotspot it works just fine. Previously the same project worked fine on my home router, not sure if a router code upgrade broke it or if my ISP (Verizon FIOS) started blocking a port . Whats even more odd is periodically the connection to the home router works okay. I’ve tried 3 different ESPs, tried different ESP code to include AT version:1.1. Pointing my browser at 45.55.96.146:80 works fine.

Home Network Connection Details:
[610] Connecting to Homenet10
[3818] AT version:1.2.0.0(Jul 1 2016 20:04:45)
SDK version:1.5.4.1(39cb9a32)
Ai-Thinker Technology Co. Ltd.
Dec 2 2016 14:21:16
OK
[9125] +CIFSR:STAIP,“192.168.1.102”
+CIFSR:STAMAC,“dc:4f:22:10:f6:90”
[9134] Connected to WiFi
[19845] Redirecting to 45.55.96.146:80

HotSpot Connection Details:
[610] Connecting to nelso
[3818] AT version:1.2.0.0(Jul 1 2016 20:04:45)
SDK version:1.5.4.1(39cb9a32)
Ai-Thinker Technology Co. Ltd.
Dec 2 2016 14:21:16
OK
[9306] +CIFSR:STAIP,“172.20.10.6”
+CIFSR:STAMAC,“dc:4f:22:10:f6:90”
[9312] Connected to WiFi
[19760] Ready (ping: 42ms).

Any thoughts on this issue?
Do I need to set up port forwarding on my router?

I determined that either my router or ISP is blocking port 443. I installed a local Blynk server, reconfigured my HW and app to use the local server, added port forwarding for port 9443 to my router and all is working just fine.

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