Forcing downgraded content?

LordFlux · EVDO User Joined: 13 Apr 2007 Posts: 42

My parents are using Alltel's broadband service at their place and I come down often to help my mom run her business. They are using a CradlePoint CRT350 and a Kyocera KPC680.

I haven't been down since last Thursday, but I noticed something strange today. It appears that Alltel is feeding out downgraded content from a caching proxy server.

Images on webpages are degraded (some are even mis-colored) and www.speedtest.net no longer works (I tried a couple more Internet speed tests and they don't work either).

Is this affecting anyone else?

jfarris · EVDO Junkie Joined: 10 May 2007 Posts: 173

Are they using Alltel's internet accelerator with IE? That's the only time I've seen downgraded images. I removed the accelerator after that.

LordFlux · EVDO User Joined: 13 Apr 2007 Posts: 42

Nope, we are using the CRT350 router. Both desktop PCs have never had the Internet Accelerator installed.

Also noticed that when holding my cursor over an image, a new <img> tag has been injected to include a new 'alt' parameter. The mouse over text now reads "Shift+R improves the quality of this image"

Sure enough, when I press SHIFT+R, the image quality improves to its original. I've been reading around and it looks like Sprint has been using a similar proxy server for their mobile service the past couple of years.

2toad · EVDO Newbie Joined: 25 Mar 2008 Posts: 1

jfarris · EVDO Junkie Joined: 10 May 2007 Posts: 173

LordFlux · EVDO User Joined: 13 Apr 2007 Posts: 42

karlyn · Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 1:59 pm Post subject:

I know I saw something about this within the last day or two but can't remember whether I read it here or over on HoFo or whether it was Alltel or Sprint.

I haven't had this problem yet but will write down the IP if it does. Every once in a while I do get an odd IP that's some sort of proxy address and not one of the normal addresses.

LordFlux · EVDO User Joined: 13 Apr 2007 Posts: 42

The address I keep seeing pop up is 1.1.1.1 and 1.1.1.3.

ChainsawBrutality · EVDO Newbie Joined: 25 Mar 2008 Posts: 1

I know,

Today after recovering my MacBook I was very excited to be getting Alltel's service back in order (which cost me 50 bucks because I lost my software)!

Then I saw these blurry, disgusting images.

I've searched through the help, preferences, tried add-ons, I'm taking this to the alltel store tomorrow.

Azmyth · EVDO Junkie Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 182

mine is doing this too.

I just spent an hr running spyware virus crap. Its doing it on both my pcs, on both firefox and IE. I just found this, so the problem is fixed temp. Why would alltel do this, and especially without any sort of notice. Just when i was loving my service.. what gives? anyone got a fix?

jfarris · EVDO Junkie Joined: 10 May 2007 Posts: 173

karlyn · Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 5:40 pm Post subject:

Azmyth · EVDO Junkie Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 182

both pcs on my network are doing this.

all jpgs and gifs are downgraded.. pngs are not.

both in IE and firefox.. I also noticed the 1.1.1 addresses...

i called my father in law who also has alltel (i told him about it, and his is working fine)

jfarris · EVDO Junkie Joined: 10 May 2007 Posts: 173

I forgot to mention that the last time I saw this was Sunday night.

Azmyth · EVDO Junkie Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 182

guess I am gonna wait to see what you alltel experts come up with. I'm exhausted with my efforts to figure it out. I hope this isn't some way to throttle bandwidth.