After much travail, notebook computers at home connect fine.
After a very brief interregnum of success, no mobile (phone, tablet) device can access the LAN without encountering “HSTS error.” If you’re not familiar, it flat denies any and all connections to any site. Doesn’t matter the browser, nor the app (which mostly seem to be Chrome under the hood).
Mobile device works fine on all other WiFi networks.
Trust me, I have manipulated every single option at the consumer router/switch/modem combination unit (a consumer grade Motorola), and absolutely every setting in the phone. Bypass NAT, assign MAC address to a static LAN IP, disable any and all security features, software from device and router/switch/modem unit, you name it.
Of course, the stock ISP DNS servers were replaced with more generic but known-good ones.
Clearly, it seems to me, the problem is outside the demarc, so it is Comcast’s problem.
Question: (i) am I wrong (ii) can I e-mail Comcast and tell them to fix their QoS snooping (I suspect that’s it) without having to talk to some rube via archaic telephone?
One of my “favorite” things about Comcast’s tech support phone line is the automated message, “Did you know that most Internet connection issues can be resolved by visiting www dot xfinity dot com and clicking on the troubleshooting link?”
OK, new one: when Fast Eddie says “time to go, it’s checkout Charlie!” in The Color of Money, is that a malapropism for “checkpoint Charlie” (which doesn’t make much sense in context), or does the phrase have any purchase in English vernacular?
I really need an answer to this! Please and thank you!
