Noob question regarding International and Local bandwith usuage

[Stasoft]

Good Afternoon All

How can I determine which type of bandwidth will be used when I download something for example from newsgroups?

eg, if I use news.saix.net, will my international (blended) bandwith first be used and when capped, will it then use my local bandwith?

regards,
Jacques

[hereticangel]

no it will use blended first for any traffic,but there is trick to let use local when you want to, sure pada will be able to assist :P

[Stasoft]

Thanks hereticangel.

@Pada..if you got some time to share some of your wisdom it will be greatly appreciated!!

[stevenv]

It depends on the bandwidth you have. If it's local-only then you can only access local servers and it will use that bandwidth. If you have anything else its blended and even downloading from local servers will use that blended bandwidth. This is why some people split traffic between two accounts (one local-only and another blended) so that they can download from local servers using local bandwidth (cheaper) and overseas servers using blended bandwidth. Only problem with this is that you need the right hardware and know-how but once it setup, generally runs itself.

[Srack0verflow]

@Pada..if you got some time to share some of your wisdom it will be greatly appreciated!!
just read around man, search these forums for the word "exploit"
@OP, remember the blended will be used first untill capped. blended traffic is int. or local, so eventhough news.saix.net is hosted locally it will use blended first

[hereticangel]

the trick works like this.

First you need a half bridge adsl router, which can dial a adsl accounts and have one the router to use, dlink 2500u etc can do this, it wont be called half bridge mode on most routers.

Then you need first run out of blended usage.

When it is done , restart the router now put your telkom account details on the router, this will give you a i.p address to local only access.

Now the new month comes and you keep that account on your router, and you dail up the telkom account on the pc if you want international access, but the account on the router
will still only be local access, if though you have blended cap, and the account on the router will deduct local cap only .

Though if your routers goes off or your line desync , the exploit is gone and you need to start over.