[Cialug] Mediacom's pop-up banners

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

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.
> > 
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Daniel A. Ramaley  |  Network Engineer 2
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