A Software solution to capping.

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Hi, I was horrified when I came here for 6 months to find the prehistoric adsl restrictions and cannot wait to get back to reality when my studies are over.

Anyway for all you who may continue to suffer with this capping nonsense here is a solution that works.

Firstly for browsing get out of SA via a proxy. I use "A4proxy" software. You get full speed browsing and direct download speeds if you have it setup right.

To use nearly every p2p program, play games online, Mirc and so on you need web tunnel software working alongside your proxy, the web tunnel will get you access to a reliable socks proxy outside SA. I use "Your Freedom" http://www.your-freedom.net/

To use outlook, FTP and so on you need the "sockscap" software working along with the above two programs.

Read the help files for each program to set them up properly and I assure you this works. I share this info here because I think the ADSL service in SA is so unfair. I will not respond to or help out individuals to get setup, I do not have the time. Work it out.

Good Luck.
 
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One problem, to get uncapped you need to be getting international access ie. proxy locally in SA and these proxies are all hosted overseas which helps 0%.
 
Zigzaktlee Clipse. But - thanks 4 the tip New_To_ZA, if you fell like sponsoring a free proxy/tunneling server here in ZA, we'll make you an instant hero. Cmon - Just do it.
 
Clipse said:
One problem, to get uncapped you need to be getting international access ie. proxy locally in SA and these proxies are all hosted overseas which helps 0%.
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Doh! You use a SA proxy to get out obviously. There are many public proxies with fast speeds hosted here. Just do a search for .ZA proxies, test them and use the fastest as your HTTP proxy.

Go here and get your SA proxies, make sure you only use the public ones or use a public proxy search software/service to find others in SA:

http://www.aliveproxy.com/proxy-list/proxies.aspx/South_Africa-za

Import your choosen proxies from above link into the A4proxy software, test them, select the fastest, uncheck direct connection in A4proxy. Go to your browsers settings and put localhost and port 80 as your browsers proxy connection and see what happens. Easy!
 
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New_to_SA said:
Doh! You use a SA proxy to get out obviously. There are many public proxies with fast speeds hosted here. Just do a search for .ZA proxies, test them and use the fastest as your HTTP proxy.

Go here and get your SA proxies, make sure you only use the public ones or use a public proxy search software/service to find others in SA:

http://www.aliveproxy.com/proxy-list/proxies.aspx/South_Africa-za

Import your choosen proxies from above link into the A4proxy software, test them, select the fastest, uncheck direct connection in A4proxy. Go to your browsers settings and put localhost and port 80 as your browsers proxy connection and see what happens. Easy!
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Amazing but apparently if you break into another mans house and take his liquor its illegal in SA.. Ok ok my point is, proxies is not legal to use without consent from the supplier.

But to all potential users, feel free to visit Bubba in jail once they do log scans.

This is old news.
 
Clipse said:
proxies is not legal to use without consent from the supplier.
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Humm - Like genuine public proxies are for the public - like legal. Same as public news servers and public ftp and public everything. Thats what they are there for LOL. Free public services. Just be careful and make sure its a public proxy. Contact the owner if you may.
 
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I would say contact the owner yes, and in the same breath I would say the proxies in SA that is anonymous is just cause of bad setup or doing so on purporse to catch free loaders.
 
If you have an open proxy on the net and you don't take any efforts to secure it I doubt you would have any chance of prosecuting a member of the public for using it. I'm not saying its right but at the end of the day its up to the proxy admins to ensure only the correct users make use of it. If they don't someone will end up using it especially in SA's bandwidth starved environment.
 
Oops - stoke stops the proxy server he had running at work.
Talk about bad setup - LOL.

Anyway - grab your buddy running UUNET and beg him to setup an authorised proxy server and use that when you're capped.
 
fergus said:
If you have an open proxy on the net and you don't take any efforts to secure it I doubt you would have any chance of prosecuting a member of the public for using it. I'm not saying its right but at the end of the day its up to the proxy admins to ensure only the correct users make use of it. If they don't someone will end up using it especially in SA's bandwidth starved environment.
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You know what, this is why in SA we need to securely lock our doors and garages with 10 different size locks to keep people out.

So what you are saying, if you can get in/on its not your fault accessing it?

*shakes his head*
 
Clipse said:
You know what, this is why in SA we need to securely lock our doors and garages with 10 different size locks to keep people out.

So what you are saying, if you can get in/on its not your fault accessing it?
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You seem to be quite paranoid about people using free public proxies. Is it something to do with the fact that you are advertising a similar paid for service that anybody can get for free legally if they set it up correctly or are you genuinely worried about the unlikelyhood of people being thrown in jail for using a proxy? Like you are just so over the top!
 
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Clipse said:
So what you are saying, if you can get in/on its not your fault accessing it?
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Thats not what I'm saying. It definitely is wrong to access other peoples proxies without their permission. But if you, as the proxy owner, don't want it to happen then its up to you to setup authentication on your proxy. And all the good proxies have this so there's no excuse not too.

I was just making the observation that you probably wouldn't be able to prosecute someone for making use of an open proxy server. Its not in the same league as breaking into a server and there's probably no laws against it. You especially wouldn't have a case if you didn't setup any auth on it.

Case in point: Sentech. I don't know the full history but I doubt they were able to recoup any of their losses after running their proxies totally open to the whole public.
 
Ok sorry fergus, I suppose I read it completely wrong. Regarding Sentech they are well within their rights to sue whoever they logged accessing their proxy without approval if they feel like it. It might be tough case but its well within their rights.
 
UrrrHum, the housebreaking analogy - in order for a person to commit the specific crime breaking & entering, they first have to pass a closed door or window or create an entry point, it is not breaking & entering if the person walks through an open door - that is only entering but not breaking. However this is all semantics bcos it is usually what happens after the entering that concerns people & the lawyers more than whether breaking actually took place at all.

What bearing does any of that have on Proxy Servers open & closed in SA you ask? - you tell me...;)
 
No problem. I'm not a lawyer or anything but I was just making the observation that prevention is better than cure, or something like that :D.
 
so theoretically we could get around the bandwidth cap in this way, IF it is legal?
 
An open proxy can be used by a spammer to send bulk unsolicated emails in a similar way an open relay can. See: http://cc.uoregon.edu/cnews/fall2002/openproxy.html.

An open proxy is thus in breach of most AUPs as far as I know. See http://www.saix.net/accept.html and http://www.ispa.org.za/code/code_of_conduct.html.

Publishing the server details of open proxies is also not allowed by the AUPs, since making the information available publicly will promote spam.

So, the owner of the open proxy, the person publishing the open proxy details and the person abusing the open proxy to send spam are all abusing the network.

A responsible netcitizen will report an open proxy to one of the open proxy black lists and keep the information private.
 
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