Comments on: Problem connecting to my own website – Imagine/Gaelic Telecom

By: Telecommunications

Telecommunications — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:24:00 +0000

Sounds like they may have that domain filtered, or on a blacklist. 90% sure its a filtering problem

By: kmcgraphics.com » Blog Archive » Update on Imagine/Gaelic Telecom Problems

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:45:29 +0000

[...] my last post I mentioned about problems connecting to my own blog from my home broadband connection with [...]

By: Me Blog! » Blog Archive » Random links

Me Blog! » Blog Archive » Random links — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 12:49:04 +0000

[...] has been having problems with accessing some sites using Gaelic Telecom/Imagine including my site. Joe (who I wrote about in another post, of paragliding infamy) also uses Gaelic [...]

By: robert

robert — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:55:20 +0000

Er.. eircom would be my choice.

Seriously.

I’ve bitched about them at times but as for what they let you do with a static IP they really can’t be faulted.

Granted I have a business package but I’m free to run whatever servers I want to i.e. Web, mail, ssh.

If your ISP is running you through a proxy that is a sure sign that they can’t afford capacity. The 3G broadband offers are the exact same. They will give you a speed of 3.6Mb but only to their POP (point of presence). After that you’re screwed.

3G coverage here is shite. Plus half the town have bought the 3G modems. They are all connecting through the same masts and Vodafone, 3, and O2 simply can’t meet demand. All those 3G modems shove you though a proxy anyway.

It’s pretty obvious Gaelic are doing the same to their DSL subscribers.

To be fair to eircom I can’t fault their price for the service I get. At least my service isn’t being restricted in any way.

To put it another way, Gaelic are certainly not providing you with the service you are paying for.

By: Kieran McCarthy

Kieran McCarthy — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:04:08 +0000

Some good points there Robert… I forgot to mention that while talking to support they asked me to change TCP/IP properties to:

Use the following DNS server addresses:
Preferred DNS server: 87.232.1.40
Alternate DNS server: 87.232.1.41

These settings are still in place.

I haven’t replied to their email yet but I think I will drop them a line, even if its to find out about filtering and privacy issues.

So then now to look for another broadband provider? Eircom are totally off my list! Any suggestions?

By: robert

robert — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:13:25 +0000

I would be inclined to think that it was a problem with their proxy server.

I’m not sure why they are forcing you to use their proxy server. Do you have it configured in your browser settings? If you don’t then they are forcing you to connect transparently through it and I would seriously consider changing to another provider because the will get to know quite a bit about your browsing habits otherwise. It is also interesting how they refer to their proxy servers as filter servers. Given these names it does indeed look like they are filtering what their subscribers are looking at.

But back to the original problem. It would seem to be that filter6 was mangling your browsers header requests. Apache uses these headers to tell it which virtual hosted domain has been requested.

If I were you I would ditch them as soon as possible citing privacy concerns.