[Cialug] Mediacom's pop-up banners

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

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.
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