Still using internet after Charter pauses subscription 12-18-2016, 06:34 PM
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Full disclosure, my friend is the one affected, but we discovered this together. We'll call him A.
So after not paying his bill, A found that any time he tried to load a site, he would be redirected by Charter to a site telling him to renew his subscription. However, he was still able to use Skype. Long story short, if you directly used an IP address instead of the URL, you can still connect. However, since sites often load resources from other sites, you'd need to add all exceptions to your hosts file. We don't know why this is possible, but we assume it has something to do with DNS. We are also looking in to writing a program to automatically unblock sites on connection, although we don't really know how to go about doing that.
Does anyone know what might be going on here?
So after not paying his bill, A found that any time he tried to load a site, he would be redirected by Charter to a site telling him to renew his subscription. However, he was still able to use Skype. Long story short, if you directly used an IP address instead of the URL, you can still connect. However, since sites often load resources from other sites, you'd need to add all exceptions to your hosts file. We don't know why this is possible, but we assume it has something to do with DNS. We are also looking in to writing a program to automatically unblock sites on connection, although we don't really know how to go about doing that.
Does anyone know what might be going on here?
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