doglover
join:2008-05-10
Middle River, MD
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Comcast has been my isp since last June and the service has been excellent. However, for the past few days I've not been able to access my favorite message board. I get the vMessage Bulletin that says "Server is currently busy. Please try again later." Took the pc to Circuit City and was able to access baltimoresun.com with no problem. Was advised to contact Comcast and see if others are sharing my bandwith. I am NOT a computer saavy person...lol...and before I call comcast was wondering if anyone has an idea what the problem may be. My pc checked out fine. No viruses, spyware...etc. Also, I can access other message boards with no problem. What's the deal with baltimoresun2.com/talk/
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
Premium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
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May 10th, @10:39PM
| thats an easy one.
someone else using comcast got banned and you're a casualty.
use a proxy to evade the ban.
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doglover
join:2008-05-10
Middle River, MD | Use a proxy? How do I do that??? |
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doglover
join:2008-05-10
Middle River, MD | Also, in the past 3 weeks I registered another name on that board. Is it possible that other username got banned and my regular username is a casualty also??? |
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dandelion
Premium,MVM
join:2003-04-29
clubs:
 ·Comcast
| reply to doglover
»www.baltimoresun.com/bal-sunspot···tmlstory
The TOS may answer that question |
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doglover
join:2008-05-10
Middle River, MD | Gotcha. |
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italiansmoke
join:2005-07-21
Monroe, MI | Or the service might in fact be experiencing issues. Email some people who use the service, and see if they are having any problems. |
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doglover
join:2008-05-10
Middle River, MD
| I emailed others. They are not having a problem. Only me.
I ordered an anonymizer from Circuit City today. Hope that solves the problem.
On that note, I stopped by Best Buy and found out from one of the Geeks that anonymizers are illegal and he was VERY surprised that Circuit City would sell them. (They don't sell them in the store, only online.) |
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scooby
Premium
join:2001-05-01
Schaumburg, IL
 ·AT&T Midwest
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May 11th, @11:34PM
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The people working at Best Buy/Geek Squad and Circuit City generally are not the most trustworthy and usually do not have the most reliable information.
Anonymous access is not illegal. There are hundreds if not thousands of anonymous proxies that you can buy service from. At my last job we used Cotse.net's $5.95 a month service to spy on our competitors. I am not sure what your anonymizer software does but usually you can just download software, pay a monthly or yearly fee from a place like cotse or anonymizer.com and you are all set.
Good luck.
Edit:
There is even a free opensource solution that works on windows as well as linux. It is not always the fastest but it is free. »www.torproject.org/ |
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doglover
join:2008-05-10
Middle River, MD | Hey Scooby...if I dl the link you posted, how will that affect the anonymizer software I purchased from Circuit City? If it will affect it at all. I don't want one to screw with the other.
Oh, and thanks for your help!!! |
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scooby
Premium
join:2001-05-01
Schaumburg, IL
·AT&T Midwest
| It should not have any affect on the software you purchased. Tor is just an app you can run. When it is not running it does not do anything. It would be an awesome app if you could somehow limit who you connect to. When you connect to someone in Russia or another bandwidth starved country, it is pretty slow. |
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doglover
join:2008-05-10
Middle River, MD
| I have good news. I pleaded with Talk Admin at my message board and they unblocked my IP address so now I am free to post again!!!!!!
The anonymizer is on it's way to my house. I was going to cancel the order but I've changed my mind. Guess I'll keep it in case I need it in the future.
I still have a question though....
If my husband installs the anonymizer on his pc, will that also affect my pc as well...by that I mean will it block my IP address when I visit sites? |
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italiansmoke
join:2005-07-21
Monroe, MI
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May 15th, @11:42AM
| It shouldn't. I would assume it would only "anonymize" the computer for which it was installed on. Then again, i've never used one so I can't say for sure.
Is it a program or a peice of hardware? If it's software, it should only work through the computer it's installed on. If it's hardware, it would anonymize everything connected through it(if it is hardware, i'm imagining a router-type device with multiple plugs in the back). |
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