[Cialug] Mediacom's pop-up banners

[chris rheinherren]

Matt, I've heard of that happening. But I dont use Mediacom' DNS servers, I
use OpenDNS and Google's DNS servers. And then I also dont come anywhere
near my bandwidth limits either.



On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 11:19 AM, David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com>
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.
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