To Hal and any others who haven't been able to replicate this:
I've had RR service to my home ever since they came to KC and I couldn't replicate "it" either until I had Road Runner reset my modem (a Toshiba PCX2600 that I've had for just about four years now). I'd been having trouble with getting onto and navigating the Net. So I called RR to have them 'ping' my modem to see what the problem was (I've gone through about four modems during my time with RR). They reset it, told me I now have four IPs instead of one...for the exact same price; we'll see when I get my next bill... and that it works fine now, which it does.
BUT, I _now_ get that advertising page when I run a test to see what I get with a random string. The only way I've found to be able to get to the page to set my "preferences" is through the Slashdot article someone gave here. I opted out of the thing and STILL get the advertising page I had 'supposedly' opted out of. What's up with THAT??? I've saved the changes that I've made but they don't 'take'.
In addition, IMHO, I don't really have a 'physical' problem with this since I don't usually manually type in a URL and when I do I make double sure it's correct. However, I'm _quite_ disturbed at the Big Brother aspect of this "Nonsense"!!! Are there any other ISPs in the area that have the speed/quality of RR that don't employ such invasive practices. I've just about had my fill of RR and AT&T, both.Time Warner Cable TV is getting ridiculous in their programming, too, but I don't necessarily want to go the satellite route because I don't need to be out on the roof cleaning the thing in snowstorms just so I can get reception. ;)
Julie @};--
Hal Wrote:
"Being a RR customer, I was curious to see this, but I cannot reproduce it. What am I doing wrong?
[hald@iolo ~]$ lynx -mime_header http://www.asdfghjklqwertyuiop.com/
Looking up www.asdfghjklqwertyuiop.com Unable to locate remote host www.asdfghjklqwertyuiop.com. Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host.
lynx: Can't access startfile http://www.asdfghjklqwertyuiop.com/ [hald@iolo ~]$
Thanks, -- Hal"<<<
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On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Julie betelgeuse67stang@yahoo.com wrote:
To Hal and any others who haven't been able to replicate this:
I've had RR service to my home ever since they came to KC and I couldn't replicate "it" either until I had Road Runner reset my modem (a Toshiba PCX2600 that I've had for just about four years now). I'd been having trouble with getting onto and navigating the Net. So I called RR to have them 'ping' my modem to see what the problem was (I've gone through about four modems during my time with RR). They reset it, told me I now have four IPs instead of one...for the exact same price; we'll see when I get my next bill... and that it works fine now, which it does.
More accurately, they will only allow you 4 IPs, ie. 4 devices with their own public IP address... it's more of a restriction than a favor they are doing you. But it is better than only having 1 IP i guess.
On Tue, March 4, 2008 11:43, Julie wrote:
Are there any other ISPs in the area that have the speed/quality of RR that don't employ such invasive practices.
I run my own DNS server for my net, as we do here at work, so I can't be sure that there is no hokey pokey on Everest's network, but their service has been excellent, and is now 5M down for $33.50/mo. One thing I really like about them is that when they tell you it's $33.50, that's what the bill says - no fees, taxes, or other flim-flam.
On Tuesday 04 March 2008, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
One thing I really like about them is that when they tell you it's $33.50, that's what the bill says - no fees, taxes, or other flim-flam.
Same with RoadRunner, Cox, and every other ISP I've ever used.
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Luke -Jr luke@dashjr.org wrote:
On Tuesday 04 March 2008, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
One thing I really like about them is that when they tell you it's $33.50, that's what the bill says - no fees, taxes, or other flim-flam.
Same with RoadRunner, Cox, and every other ISP I've ever used.
Not on my RoadRunner bill, unless it's because I also have cable with them
On Tue, March 4, 2008 13:11, Luke -Jr wrote:
On Tuesday 04 March 2008, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
One thing I really like about them is that when they tell you it's $33.50, that's what the bill says - no fees, taxes, or other flim-flam.
Same with RoadRunner, Cox, and every other ISP I've ever used.
RoadRunner's advertised price was several taxes and fees less than what they billed me. They may have cleaned up their act, doesn't matter 'cause their 48 hr. response time meant they couldn't fix an intermittent problem.
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