[Cialug] Mediacom's pop-up banners

[Scott Yates]

I have seen this as well.  Yes, perma-vpn seems like the only answer.  I do
this with my phone, but generally not my home connection.  Since they
raised the soft cap to 2TB/m for my level of service, I have not had the
issue.

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Ron Houk <houk.ron at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've seen this even though I use Google DNS.
> On Feb 5, 2015 11:31 AM, "Daniel A. Ramaley" <daniel.ramaley at drake.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > I know. It frustrates me that i'm so close yet the wire distance is so
> > far. Could we set up a high speed wireless connection between my place
> > and the central office? If the wireless antenna were set up on my roof
> > it would only have to be strong enough to pass through 1 tree.
> >
> > On 2015-02-05 at 11:19:41 David Champion wrote:
> > > Really sad since you could throw a rock and hit the Central Office
> > > from your house...
> > >
> > > -dc
> > >
> > > On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Daniel A. Ramaley
> > > <daniel.ramaley at drake.edu
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Mediacom is the only cable internet provider in the area, right?
> > > > I've
> > > > actually been thinking of switching to them (<shudder>) because the
> > > > maximum speed i can get from DSL is just so slow. (No fault of my
> > > > ISP; the phone wires in my neighborhood are bad.)
> > > >
> > > > Obviously i don't want my ISP mangling my traffic though. That's
> > > > never been a problem with my DSL ISPs. Will i have to set up a
> > > > permanent VPN to work around this though if i switch to cable?
> > > >
> > > > On 2015-02-05 at 09:59:59 Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> > > > > As the month goes on Mediacom will tell me that I'm nearing my
> > > > > data
> > > > > limit (grr) by embedding a banner atop of some websites. It
> > > > > doesn't
> > > > > seem to do it to SSL websites, but if I go to a non-SSL website it
> > > > > will show up along the top of the page. For example, I've seen it
> > > > > atop my own website at http://www.bearfruit.org
> > > > >
> > > > > When I check, the domain it is not altered.
> > > > >
> > > > > Implicitly, this means to me that they're transparently proxying
> > > > > all
> > > > > of my non-ssl web traffic through their servers which are then
> > > > > re-writing the pages if they see fit. This makes me unhappy.
> > > > >
> > > > > Is there any other explanation for what is going on that I may be
> > > > > missing?
> > > > >
> > > > > It used to be that when I saw this happening it meant my DNS in my
> > > > > router was not getting set. If I set the DNS servers to OpenDNS
> > > > > that
> > > > > wouldn't happen. But I'm pretty sure it's working now, though as I
> > > > > write this I feel like I should double check that just to be sure.
> > > >
> > > > __
> > > > Daniel A. Ramaley  |  Network Engineer 2
> > > > Drake Technology Services (DTS) | Drake University
> > > >
> > > > T: +1 515 271-4540
> > > > F: +1 515 271-1938
> > > > E: daniel.ramaley at drake.edu
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