problem... access denied by cisco.

26 comments

• founder

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  6 years ago

  Make sure you have https in front of the address, not just http
• Jascoi

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  6 years ago

  i’ll consider that later.
  
  for the time being I have an Apple phone and an iPad.
  
  i had an iPod... but that got stolen.
  
  I’m impressed 48... an actual contribution to the site!!
• Jascoi

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  6 years ago

  thank you founder. I’ll give that a try.
• Jascoi

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  6 years ago

  founder. All it does is delete the tuscl and send me to a home in provement website. aaarrrgggg!
• Jascoi

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  6 years ago

  at least my phone still understands what I want.
• MackTruck

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  6 years ago

  I agree with cowboy. Apple is not real crypto friendly either. I think this my be because apple was/ not sure if they still are, planning on installing butcoin mining abilities on their phones. They did not want competition, my opinion.
  
  If you know wnyrhing about bitcoin mining this is rediculous. A phone does not have enough processing power to do shit. Unless they plan on using their entire network to mine, including your phone, and keeping it and giving you pennies.
• MackTruck

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  6 years ago

  Apple could probably legally do this with some fine print in your contract
• Jascoi

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  6 years ago

  that sucks.
• Nidan111

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  6 years ago

  Try EMPTYING your browser cache.
  .
  Open a new browser window and go to the "Tools" menu
  Select "Internet Options"
  In the "General" tab, and under "Temporary Internet Files," click the "Delete Files" option
  Click "OK" to delete the files
  Click "OK" to close the Internet Options dialog box
• founder

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  6 years ago

  Download Firefox and try browsing tuscl incognito
• Jascoi

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  6 years ago

  this is all way beyond my skill level..
• Jascoi

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  6 years ago

  I just simply want to get rid of Cisco.
• Jascoi

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  6 years ago

  OK I was lucky.
  
  Fire fox is now downloading on my iPad.
• Jascoi

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  6 years ago

  Firefox is working.
• Icey

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  6 years ago

  Try clearing your cookies and web history. That will usually help most things like this.
• GeneraI

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  6 years ago

  Cisco umbrella is their DNS blocking product that use to be called opendns. were you at a hotel or one someone else's wifi when you were getting blocked? it might have added a proxy setting to your browser that's redirecting all your searches to their dns site, and someone has probably deemed tuscl as either porn or something unacceptable.
• Papi_Chulo

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  6 years ago

  What browser were you previously using?
• Jascoi

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  6 years ago

  whatever comes with the Apple phone.
  
  I think it might be Google or something.
• Jascoi

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  6 years ago

  Yeah... I was at a Starbucks Wi-Fi when I first encountered the problem.
• Papi_Chulo

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  6 years ago

  ^^ Google Cheome
• Papi_Chulo

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  6 years ago

  ^ Chrome
• IfIGottaBeDamned

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  6 years ago

  Starbucks is installing porn filters on their WiFi networks year.
  
  https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/201…
• IfIGottaBeDamned

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  6 years ago

  *this year.*
• Papi_Chulo

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  6 years ago

  Oh yeah - if you were at Starbucks you can forget about connecting to TUSCL on their WiFi, it won't allow you to connect - I hang out @ Starbucks a lot and I had to get the TunnelBear VPN which allows you to bypass the Starbucks (or any WiFi) filters - TunnelBear gives you 500MB free every month but it can go by pretty-quickly if you use it everyday
• PutaTester

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  6 years ago

  Some good information here. I travel a lot and have had to bypass networks that want to regulate my behavior.
  
  FYI, the default browser for Apple products is Safari. The suggestion to clear your cache, cookies, and temporary files is best.
  
  I don’t think it is Cisco’s fault. More likely the local network adding cookies and redirecting your searches. Censorship sucks.
• GeneraI

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  6 years ago

  Cisco Umbrella is the back end product DNS filtering product that Starbucks must be using. The VPN that Papi uses is a good solution. You might be able to just manually specify a DNS server instead of the DNS server that Starbucks is automatically handing you when you get your DHCP address, Google's DNS server is 8.8.8.8 The problem you'll have there is some firewalls won't let you make your own DNS requests, so you might have to keep toggling that on and off if you are traveling a lot. The good thing is Google's DNS server is very easy to remember. I don't have an apple products to tell you how to go about manually setting a DNS server, but it would be under the settings, network area. On Windows products, you can get an IP address automatically, and manually specify a DNS, so I'd assume apple would also let you do that.