3Bb Going Offline Just Before Window With Cloudspace Ad Appears

[davevi]

Is it just me, or has 3BB's service had some kind of major problem in the last 24 hours?

Here's what happens.

Everything is good, full speed, and then things go to zero bandwidth. You wait for about 90 seconds and then bandwidth comes back to completely normal all by itself, but then the first window you open isn't where you want to go, but is instead a window with a single line of text in Thai that says something about there are only xxxx thousand accounts still available out of 8xxx or something like that. A translation of the screen by my Thai friend reveals that the sentence does not make sense even in Thai.

When I look at the URL of the web site generating this single-line of advertisement it appears to be for the new 3BB Cloudspace product.

Anyone else with this issue?

I'm going to try to bypass the 3BB DNS servers now to get past the error. I'm not sure what's going on...

If you Google "google DNS" you too will find the steps to do this.

[george]

Moved to tech forum.

[Notstupid30]

Yea my 5M / 1M bad this 24 hour just trying to download a file what is 136.24 MB taken anything from 1 hour 2 hour's or cutting out then have to start again also doesn't help it's raining very bad also just looked at the line via task bar on window 8 not even 1M speed ...

[brebs]

I doubt it's a DNS issue. I always run BIND under Linux, and have seen these crappy 3BB-injected HTML ads occasionally when browsing. Very naughty of them.

I've not noticed any particular problem in the last day.

[silverhawk_usa]

Yes, I had this same problem a few weeks ago. As the OP states, it didn't make any sense in Thai or English. It hasn't recurred in the last week or so.

[Notstupid30]

I just used some software called PC Cleaner Pro put it that way it found a lot of crap and now my system gone into warp speed @ 4.7GHz it's must a found 2000 problems and it sort's a lot of stuff out .. ? A lot of internet crap was pull up from this software ..

[brebs]

Strewth. Don't fall for the marketing lies and FUD. Such software calls every *cookie* a "problem", so that they sound impressive.

Run e.g. Privoxy, which protects and is properly free.

Although, even Privoxy cannot prevent 3BB's sneaky man-in-the-middle HTML injection. We need to use HTTPS ("S" for "secure") more, rather than plain-and-easily-modifiable-by-3BB HTTP.