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Hi Alan</div>
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What O.S. are you using,</div>
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Mac or PC ?</div>
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I assume you will get a dynamic IP address when at Cushman....</div>
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Are you using a static or dynamic IP address at home?</div>
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If you could send your IP configuration when at Cushman (where all urls don't work)</div>
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Your IP address configuration when at home where it sounds like all urls do work.</div>
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I can tell you how to do this if you aren't sure how.</div>
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Feel free to contact me off HT if you wish.</div>
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<div dir="auto"><font color="#000000">This was sent from my smart phone so message may be brief, Don </font></div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, November 10, 2024 3:58:09 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Noah Paessel <knowuh@gmail.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Hidden Tech <hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Hidden-tech] Cushman wifi mystery</font>
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<div class="PlainText">Noah,<br>
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Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm not clear on how it would help me. <br>
My workplace already has VPN access; I'm sure they're not going to want <br>
to host a second one just so that I can access personal websites from <br>
Cushman. Or does the VPN have Tor-like capability to tunnel to those <br>
sites without the need to configure a host? Or am I misunderstanding <br>
entirely?<br>
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Also, while a solution that I can set up on my own laptop would be <br>
appreciated, I am hoping to be altruistic and find a way to solve this <br>
problem for everyone, so each Cushman patron doesn't need to install <br>
their own copy of third-party software.<br>
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--Alan<br>
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Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] Cushman wifi mystery<br>
Date: 2024-11-09 10:45<br>
From: Noah Paessel <knowuh@gmail.com><br>
To: Alan Frank <alan@8wheels.org><br>
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Hi Alan,<br>
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I subscribe to a commercial VPN service. I generally have it turned on <br>
unless I am at home. There are many to choose from, and many blog posts <br>
compare these commercial offerings. Nord VPN is constantly given high<br>
Marks, also Proton. These are usually affordable.<br>
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Lately I have also been using TailScale for more nerdy reasons. Note <br>
that this solution won’t do what you want at Cushman “out of the box” — <br>
but you could configure it to do so pretty easily. It’s an amazing <br>
service especially if you want to be able to access your private <br>
infrastructure from anywhere. The free tier is very generous.<br>
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And boy do I love Cushman ! ❤️<br>
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Good luck!<br>
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Noah<br>
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> On Nov 9, 2024, at 10:16 AM, Alan Frank via Hidden-discuss <br>
> <hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> Hidden Techers,<br>
> <br>
> I frequently eat lunch at Cushman Market in Amherst. For many years, I <br>
> had no problems with their wifi. However, in July, I started getting <br>
> connection errors for most web sites. For example:<br>
> <br>
> This site can’t be reached<br>
> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/</a> is unreachable.<br>
> Try running Windows Network Diagnostics.<br>
> ERR_ADDRESS_UNREACHABLE<br>
> <br>
> This site can’t be reached<br>
> Check if there is a typo in webmail.pair.com.<br>
> If spelling is correct, try running Windows Network Diagnostics.<br>
> DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN<br>
> <br>
> I am able to access Facebook, Google, and Youtube, among others. I <br>
> could watch a video on Youtube, so it's not a bandwidth issue.<br>
> <br>
> I can access <a href="https://www.bridgebase.com/">https://www.bridgebase.com/</a>, but when I follow the links
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> to log in or to access the VuGraph archive on the same site, it fails. <br>
> Perhaps the home page is cached?<br>
> <br>
> Over time, I experienced the same thing on three different Windows <br>
> laptops and on my phone, when connected to the Cushman wifi. None of <br>
> the devices had any trouble connecting to any of the web sites from <br>
> home or from other public wifi networks. I also spoke with another <br>
> Cushman customer. He said that he didn't have any trouble, though when <br>
> he tried then to access washingtonpost.com, he got the same message. <br>
> At my request, he also tried fidelity.com--another one that is <br>
> unreachable for me--and got a basic HTML page, not the normal rich home <br>
> page.<br>
> <br>
> I reached out to the owner of Cushman. She said that she didn't have <br>
> any problems with those sites, that she wasn't intentionally blocking <br>
> any of them, and that she could access them from her device; I'm not <br>
> sure which sites specifically she was able to reach and I don't have <br>
> direct knowledge that she was using the same network.<br>
> <br>
> One idea I had was to tunnel through my work VPN to a remote desktop, <br>
> though at best that will work only until I retire in a few years. <br>
> There are a couple of ways to do that. One is through a URL, but of <br>
> course I can't access that. Another is to use Windows App. When I <br>
> tried installing it while at Cushman, Microsoft Store said that I <br>
> wasn't connected to the internet, though of course I was--I can <br>
> navigate the store itself just fine. I installed it later from home <br>
> and will try it out the next time I'm at the cafe, which at this point <br>
> may not be for a while.<br>
> <br>
> I'd appreciate any suggestions for what the owner or I can do to <br>
> investigate or resolve this issue.<br>
> <br>
> --Alan<br>
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