I use the native Pandora iOS app on my iPad every day while I work, iPad mounted to my desk with a magnetic disc on the back. I've used it this way every day for the last several months without any issues.
Roughly 3 days ago, I noticed that my iPad would claim "Cannot connect to Pandora. Please check your network connection and try again." for no reason. Reboots, reconfiguring networks, etc. all results in the same message.
I connect my iPad to my phone's hotspot while driving and it works instantly there. I did the same in my office connecting it to my phone's hotspot and it works as expected. No errors.
I have my own WiFi router behind the Frontier router, to isolate my LAN from their annoying DNS hijacking. I enabled the wireless network on _their_ router, and connected my iPad to it, same error message. Their router plugs directly into the incoming cable from the street, so nothing on my end is between it, and their upstream network access point.
I reset the network settings on my iPad, recreated the network connections to all networks, same error. But it still continues to work when the iPad is connected my phone's hotspot, every single time.
I tried uninstalling the Pandora app from my iPad as recommended by Applel and reinstalled it. Same error.
I hard-reset my iPad, set up the iPad as a fresh, clean iPad and installed the Pandora app. Same error.
I tried changing the DNS settings on the iPad side to point to Google's DNS, Cloudflare's secure DNS, my own DNS, Frontier's DNS on the router, Frontier's upstream DNS, and other public DNS servers. All resulted in the same exact error.
The native Pandora app on my Android phone, continues to work fine when connected to the same wireless routers that the iPad Pandora app fails on. It works every time on Android. It may be falling back to my data connection though, even under Airplane Mode.
Pandora running in a desktop browser works fine on all machines (Mac, Win, Linux), no issues at all. The _only_ place this is no longer working, is the native app running directly on the iPad itself.
The last thing I'm going to test, is connecting the iPad through a proxy I run here on my LAN, so I can look at the logs and see which service endpoint Frontier is blocking when the app launches.
This is 100% on their end, because nothing at all has changed on my devices, Pandora version is the same as it has been for weeks prior, and my networking equipment hasn't changed at all, and it continues to fail when connected directly through their router.
Has anyone else ever seen this before, and what did you do to resolve it?
I'm hoping this isn't more of their anti-Net Neutrality over-reach. Their DNS hijacking is already causing no end of pain for me on my LAN and lab testing at the home office.
Thanks in advance!
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