supergirl
join:2007-03-20
Pensacola, FL
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1 edit | I drop them over that and the rip-off
Cox here (Gulf Coast) added "permaboost" which really just makes you look like you are getting what you are paying for. I got a solid 12/1 connection before it. After it was 8/1 with downloads at 10 down. So, I was paying for 12/1 and getting 2/3rds the speed.
Surfing brought a lot of those Cox pages, full of frickin ads, if the URL didn't resolved fast enough. BellSouth hasn't that problem and I'm saving $25 a month over Cox.
I also never saw 1 mbps up mostly 500 up.
If you call and threaten to go DSL, they will drop your price in half for 2 months. |
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supergirl
join:2007-03-20
Pensacola, FL | Also, I noticed Yahoo IM didn't work a lot. It would all of the sudden lose connection.
They were definitely throttling YouTube.
Cox also had a search function on their page.
Cox used to allow it to go to google. |
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ColorBASIC
8-bit Fun
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join:2006-12-29
Corona, CA | reply to supergirl
Then call every 2 months and use other DNS servers unless you have a good alternative available. |
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TKJunkMail
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| said by ColorBASIC  :Then call every 2 months and use other DNS servers unless you have a good alternative available. Use your own PC based DNS service. I use treewalk to handle my DNS needs. It has worked without any problems for the last year. »www.ntcanuck.com/
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ColorBASIC
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Corona, CA | As far as DNS goes, it's one the of few things Verizon does right. |
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GlennAllen
join:2002-11-17
Richmond, VA
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TreeWalk is great; I've been using it for quite a few years. Simply installing it, however, won't help someone much with this kind of stuff. TreeWalk will simply cache your successful lookups so that if/when your regular DNS server availability becomes "problematic", you'll still be able to find the sites you've visited before. New lookups will still go out to the next level DNS (the default being whatever you were using when you installed TreeWalk), and, as you'd expect, unsuccessful lookups--which is what you'd have here--won't be cached. Now, you could both install TreeWalk and point it to a higher level--or "real"--DNS to bypass DNS "redirection" sites and to avoid other non-spec DNS problems.
I don't know... does it really matter? If they're redirecting only browser requests, probably not. If they're screwing up non-browser requests, then probably so.
Either way, using something like TreeWalk is usually a good idea.
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nixen
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join:2002-10-04
Alexandria, VA
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said by TKJunkMail :said by ColorBASIC :Then call every 2 months and use other DNS servers unless you have a good alternative available. Use your own PC based DNS service. I use treewalk to handle my DNS needs. It has worked without any problems for the last year. » www.ntcanuck.com/ All of which assumes a provider never decides to do a transparent proxy of port 53. One of them will eventually try that.
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zerog
join:2002-02-10
Dallas, TX
1 edit | it will likely come with the "save the children" package of internet restriction tools designed to filter out porn and meds sites...
btw.. Transparent DNS redirection will most certainly break LOTS of stuff... |
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dvd536
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Phoenix, AZ
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said by nixen :said by TKJunkMail :said by ColorBASIC :Then call every 2 months and use other DNS servers unless you have a good alternative available. Use your own PC based DNS service. I use treewalk to handle my DNS needs. It has worked without any problems for the last year. » www.ntcanuck.com/ All of which assumes a provider never decides to do a transparent proxy of port 53. One of them will eventually try that. A provider cant filter/block ports on the LOCAL side, only at the modem.
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nixen
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| said by dvd536 :A provider cant filter/block ports on the LOCAL side, only at the modem. And...?
If your access to the Internet-at-large goes through my networks, I can do whatever the hell I want to your traffic. So, even if you point your DNS entries to OpenDNS, I can still redirect them to my DNS servers. So, do what you want inside your LAN, I really don't care. But, the moment you're sending packets beyond your LAN, they're mine to do with as I please.
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