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[Peter Green <peter AT greenpete.co.uk>]

Wow! He makes you login to his services every time you want to access 
the
Internets?

This seems extremely odd for a domestic (I assume, maybe incorrectly, 
that
it's a domestic/home ) broadband service, maybe there's more to it
than that?

Peter

On Thu, 17 May 2012 23:05:26 +0200, Gandalf wrote:

> I should meet with him around the end of the month (depends when my 
> new
> laptop
> arrives) so I will ask him. I think it may be a part of his
> authorization service. Before
> I can access the Internet, I always have to start a browser and fill 
> a
> login form. If I try
> to access another site, it automatically redirects me to the login 
> page.
>
> If you ask why he does it, then perhaps because of many folks who
> set-upped their
> own wi-fi and forgot on the encryption. I'll ask him and post his 
> answer.
>
> gandalf
>
> Dňa 17. 5. 2012 22:31, Peter Green wrote / napísal(a):
>
> > Are you going to talk to your I.S.P. about this issue, or maybe you
> > have already? It'd be interesting to know the story in greater
> > detail... How you found out, why they do it, if they'll change their
> > policy/practice etc... Peter On Thu, 17 May 2012 15:24:37 -0500 
> > (CDT),
> > gandy93 AT shellmix.com [3]wrote:
> >
> > > Sorry for replying to myself but I don't know where else to post 
> > > it.
> > > Thanks to stephan48 on IRC I was able to find a solution. In the 
> > > end,
> > > it was my ISP intercepting DNS requests. And I thought he was a 
> > > such
> > > cool guy. :-( Anyway, I'm bypassing it with this neat script -
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