Cable company trouble,....

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poetry1969

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I use a primary cable provider for 100MBS internet access. I started using GSA Search Engine Ranker and left it on for two days posting tier three links. The cable company shut me off temporarily and then said I was using their DNS too much and they suspect I have a virus (they can't see my traffic because I'm on a proxy) so I was not banned permanently but I had to stop.

Any advice would be appreciated. I want to resume but I can't lose my Internet access. I need it for my real job.

Ideas?
 
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Configure your network controller to use Google/OpenDNS DNS servers. To speed up the queries even more, you can cache the DNS requests with AcrylicDNS which runs on your system as a network service.
 
Get a VPS.

If you're only using GSA you can probably get a decent VPS for like $30/mo. (look in the BST section)

Don't use your home internet if you're going to be spamming away.
 
Gyuman82 said:
Don't use your home internet if you're going to be spamming away.
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Great advice here -- also, wasn't there an issue with GSA making requests to chinese servers for some reason? I seem to remember this recently in the lounge or something..
 
Hmm interesting. who is your provider if you are living in LA by chance, ive been using gsa for a while and had no complaints from the cable company
 
you do it on an off, let it run for 12 hours, turn it off for 12 and back on for 12
 
As others have said... either;
a) Use G DNS or Open DNS - free
b) Use a VPN (around $5 a month)
c) Use a VPS...

Plenty of options there.
 
alohamrhand said:
Great advice here -- also, wasn't there an issue with GSA making requests to chinese servers for some reason? I seem to remember this recently in the lounge or something..
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That was for Gscraper.
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As is pretty normal with Cable companies that give customers the run-around... I called back and asked to speak to a senior technician... I told him the same storyI posted above and he then told me a completely different story for my being disconnected temporarily. He claimed that a third party company said I was DOSing their server. But, I was using the privateinternetaccess.com VPN so nobody should have been able to trackback my IP, not to mention I was certainly NOT sending out any kind of DOS attack. That VPN seems to be a concern anyway. They block all my outgoing email so I have to turn it off to send out email, and now people are reporting my real IP while I was supposed to be masked. I suppose I should have been wary of a sevrice that claims to make you anonymous but monitors your activities to block you from sending email etc.

Thanks for all the input. I might go ahead and buy a server that is pre-loaded with all the tools. They are pretty cheap.
 
poetry1969 said:
As is pretty normal with Cable companies that give customers the run-around... I called back and asked to speak to a senior technician... I told him the same storyI posted above and he then told me a completely different story for my being disconnected temporarily. He claimed that a third party company said I was DOSing their server. But, I was using the privateinternetaccess.com VPN so nobody should have been able to trackback my IP, not to mention I was certainly NOT sending out any kind of DOS attack. That VPN seems to be a concern anyway. They block all my outgoing email so I have to turn it off to send out email, and now people are reporting my real IP while I was supposed to be masked. I suppose I should have been wary of a sevrice that claims to make you anonymous but monitors your activities to block you from sending email etc.

Thanks for all the input. I might go ahead and buy a server that is pre-loaded with all the tools. They are pretty cheap.
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Again just go with a VPS. This happened to me also (I have ATT/SBC) when I first started out with automated tools, and it's just a pain in the ass to talk to these people. Even if you use a VPN, proxies whatever sometimes they'll still find out.

Don't mess your home internet up, it's so cheap to get a VPS anyway that will solve all these problems as well as allow you to run spammier software like Scrapebox etc.
 
I bought a desktop seo package from Bulletproof VPS SEO... I love it. I'm not worried my local cable company will find out. Nothing goes from my computer at all, I just remote desktop to another computer and run the tools there. I can't fathom any way the local company could complain about traffic that does not originate from them.
 
Also,... thanks to those who offered advice of any kind, and especially those who said got check out VPS... it's cheap (like $32 dirt cheap) and I already have my own licenses for everything so I can use some of my own tools. I'll post a review of them after I have used it for long enough to form a good opinion, but so far its great (slower than my PC but fast enough for me).
 
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