Apparently the fine folks at GCI aren’t making enough off their customers by selling bundled packages and burying the best Internet options deep inside the most expensive plans. They’ve gone and fiddled with the default DHCP/DNS settings that causes redirects to their branded Yahoo! search page when a user enters words in the URL path of their browser. Can they really be that desperate for a few click-through dollars? Did anyone really ask for this “feature”?
Gee thanks, I guess.
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It’s official, AT&T has announced they are taking over all the CellularOne business inside Alaska. According to reports, you can now get the iPhone as soon as December 9, 2007. No doubt this will be one of the most popular Christmas wishes for many Alaskans this holiday season. Read the rest of this entry »
Yet again, the ISP choices in Alaska show their lack of timeliness and professionalism. For some of you who may not know what DNS does, it’s basically the phonebook that tells your browser where to find any website by its name “websitename.com”. DNS entries are updated when people move their sites from one server to another or when a new domain name is created. Read the rest of this entry »
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One of the primary motivators for the creation of this blog stemmed from my continuing distaste for the state of ISP (Internet Service Providers) offerings in south central Alaska. Before I dive headlong into a diatribe about the dismal state of Internet access in the Last Great State, allow me to explain how I arrived at the conclusion that “it sucks”. Read the rest of this entry »
