Crystal Web ADSL performance feedback thread Part 3...

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Sinbad said:
Blocking traffic on your router does not prevent the traffic going down your line, using your bandwidth and congesting your connectivity
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Technically yes.

But that's if they know the IP is active and exists and keep knocking at the door as we know has been happening in your case.

But a randomised attack can at least be avoided if you can hide your IP to the best of your ability which is what should happen if you silently drop that traffic and even better if you can kill all ICMP responses.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Technically yes.

But that's if they know the IP is active and exists and keep knocking at the door as we know has been happening in your case.

But a randomised attack can at least be avoided if you can hide your IP to the best of your ability which is what should happen if you silently drop that traffic and even better if you can kill all ICMP responses.
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If it's random and you're on the list, that's it. You can drop anything on your end (as the ISP we won't know as UDP won't return ACK back upstream) but the line will still be flooded. Your router may not freeze up, but the line will have no incoming or outbound connectivity no matter what you try. The only way to stop it is closer to the source of the attack, not the destination.
 
Crystal Web Management said:
If it's random and you're on the list, that's it. You can drop anything on your end (as the ISP we won't know as UDP won't return ACK back upstream) but the line will still be flooded. Your router may not freeze up, but the line will have no incoming or outbound connectivity no matter what you try. The only way to stop it is closer to the source of the attack, not the destination.
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Makes sense.

But what I meant was that surely they would only attack a known valid IP.

If they don't think there is something there will just move along to the next more relevant target.
 
Crystal Web Management said:
If it's random and you're on the list, that's it. You can drop anything on your end (as the ISP we won't know as UDP won't return ACK back upstream) but the line will still be flooded. Your router may not freeze up, but the line will have no incoming or outbound connectivity no matter what you try. The only way to stop it is closer to the source of the attack, not the destination.
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Depends...

When they hit me personally after I stupidly let slip my IP address, their puny botnet could only muster about 90-100mbps - so I was still getting valid through ;)
 
Why not just pull the dsl line from the router, switch it off, switch off the PC and TV, brew a pot of java, get a good book and read some?


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Crystal Web Management said:
If it's random and you're on the list, that's it. You can drop anything on your end (as the ISP we won't know as UDP won't return ACK back upstream) but the line will still be flooded. Your router may not freeze up, but the line will have no incoming or outbound connectivity no matter what you try. The only way to stop it is closer to the source of the attack, not the destination.
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Well if the rule drops traffic between your router and the ISP that is fine then, or if you can at least prove via your router logs that you did not consume the data you are also fine. The big worry here was paying for capped data and not being able to use it because of a outside source. You can always restore connectivity by powering off the router for 15 minutes, hoping your dynamic ip changes and powering on the router again.
 
A week ago I moved from Web Africa back to Afrihost - literally hours before CW announced the same midnight to 18H00 deal for capped accounts. I had already signed up so left it.

A week later, and I can feel my online gaming experience is not consistent. Plus I had to sign up to a third party news host because Afrihost's does not do it for me.

Tonight I got the hell in with my intermittent lag spikes in game, and signed up with CW on the 150GB capped package.
I am after access to the premium news host so I have to go for the premium uncapped package, or can I get it on one of the capped accounts? I really don't need uncapped...
 
DominionZA said:
A week ago I moved from Web Africa back to Afrihost - literally hours before CW announced the same midnight to 18H00 deal for capped accounts. I had already signed up so left it.

A week later, and I can feel my online gaming experience is not consistent. Plus I had to sign up to a third party news host because Afrihost's does not do it for me.

Tonight I got the hell in with my intermittent lag spikes in game, and signed up with CW on the 150GB capped package.
I am after access to the premium news host so I have to go for the premium uncapped package, or can I get it on one of the capped accounts? I really don't need uncapped...
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It's available on the capped accounts. Talk to their chat guys if the details are not in your welcome email. That's where I got mine.
 
AfricanTech said:
It's available on the capped accounts. Talk to their chat guys if the details are not in your welcome email. That's where I got mine.
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I was told today that CW have a standard news host and a premium. Which one did you get access to on your capped account?
Are you able to tell me the retention period and max concurrent connections allowed? Or do they advertise this somewhere?

Apologies for all the questions...
 
DominionZA said:
I was told today that CW have a standard news host and a premium. Which one did you get access to on your capped account?
Are you able to tell me the retention period and max concurrent connections allowed? Or do they advertise this somewhere?

Apologies for all the questions...
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No worries. I wouldn't mind answering the questions if I was at my pc to look up that info. The chat people will give you all that info.

Cheers
 
DominionZA said:
I was told today that CW have a standard news host and a premium. Which one did you get access to on your capped account?
Are you able to tell me the retention period and max concurrent connections allowed? Or do they advertise this somewhere?

Apologies for all the questions...
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The welcome email will have the premium details, the standard one is the normal IS server, setup as IS server as the main, then premium as backup.

AFAIK, IS server is 100 days retention, 10 connections (although I only see 7 these days) and premium 2000+ retention, 20 connections.
 
wingnut771 said:
The welcome email will have the premium details, the standard one is the normal IS server, setup as IS server as the main, then premium as backup.

AFAIK, IS server is 100 days retention, 10 connections (although I only see 7 these days) and premium 2000+ retention, 20 connections.
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Awesome - thanks. 2000 days it quite insane actually :)

I have received the invoice, but no welcome email yet. Hoping it comes today as I would like to compare online gaming on CW vs what I have been having with Afrihost - tonight.
 
So, Telkom seem to be having problems in my area at least, but I can't find any info whatsoever on the outage. The ADSL link itself is up and running, but there is no response to PPPoE packets whatsoever. Anyone else having problems or who can point me to where I can find info on Telkom outages?
 
Well colour me freaking impressed.
I switched to my new Crystal Web account at 17H00 or so and got down to some gaming. Let me paint a small picture so the context is right.

I run Tomato USB on an RT-N66U to manage the home traffic (5 of us on the net). I have bandwidth caps on all the kids devices because they love to upload a lot of content - and upload is what kills your connection - especially in gaming.
The only device I don't limit is the PS4, because - well - it's a gaming device.

Typically in ARK when my ping shoots to +100, I look at my IP traffic and the PS4 is almost always the culprit hitting some major upload while my son is playing. I have to issue a warning to my boy about it and he gets it under control. And so this goes on every night and across many ISP's (over time).

So now I am playing ARK on Crystal Web. Zero latency issues. I glance over at my firewall and there sits the PS4 almost maxing out my upstream. Huh?? How come no freaking lag in ARK. I check the ping in ARK - and it's 20!! HUH!!!

Well I am a little blown away. I can see why so many recommended CW for gaming and streaming. This flipping rocks.

I am going to try disable all rules on my firewall now. I have created them over time to try and enable everyone to have a decent internet experience. Let's see what happens with all open....

Well done CW. Just well flipping done.
 
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