| reply to Zaber
Re: Sorry to say.... It's true google, yahoo, MSN, Windows live does redirects BUT none of them do this, read on to find out (I'm sure there are others that experienced this as well)....
Before I changed my DNS servers to the no-redirected ones every time I tried to connect to any of my machines at home, within my own network, I was redirected to some whacked out 209.... ip address. Hello! everything internal is 192.168 why the freak'n snap where my internally assigned DHCP machines responding as "MachineXX.earthlink.net" Did I suddenly join the Earthlink.net domain without knowing it? Do I need to log into my local machine with ELN\opid! Come on! Before I figured out it was the stinking redirects I had to create host files and assign static ip's on each one of my machines (5 of them) so they could all see each other again. This was alright for the desktops and server but my two laptops I specifically wanted DHCP assigned addresses as I do alot of traveling. It was bad enough that they were redirecting my www.goooooooooooooogle to their "helpful" search page but why did ALL of my INTERNAL pings to my INTERNAL machines resolve to an internet IP address of 209.....
The bean counters and sales slobs need to stay OUT of the internet because if ELN keeps this up they will be the next AOL! I'm afraid they are already going down that road. I agree with the comments posted here. I've had great service with them up to know. I started dial-up 6 years and they were the only ISP where you could dial-in and literaly be connected to the internet for two weeks with dropping the connection (I had two phone lines)! I moved to ELN Cable 2 years later and it has only been down 3 times in 4 years and two of those times it was due to hurricanes.
ELN don't turn your name into another curse like AOL!
AOL SUCKS! |
