Help me understand local cap please

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ChrisbChrisb

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I have indeed searched and read, and I'm just not clear that things are as lame as they appear. Here's how I understand my Telkom ADSL local/international capping:
  • I use my allowance, and all my usage shows (on bandwidth usage page) as 'blended'
  • When I hit my 3Gb* cap I get throttled on international traffic...
  • ...and my local usage starts to clock up provided I access local sites
This means:
  1. The only way I can tell if accessing my server at IS, via ftp on an IP address, is considered as 'local' is to use up my 3Gb allowance and then have a crap remainder of the month?
  2. And if i try to use my local server as a backup repository, I'll max out my blended cap quickly and find myself with a (near) useless internet account for the remainder of the month?
  3. BUT, I can set up my IS server (almost limitless bandwidth & cap) as a proxy server, ditch Telkom, and go for a local-only account that will always work up to the total local+international cap, right? Provided I can find some way to make that proxy server private and not open to the world...

It just sounds too too lame to be true...

* (or whatever it is, I have no idea cos the bandwidth page doesn't tell me)
 
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Garyvdh said:
install Firefox, with Flagfox, you will then see a South African flag next to all the "local" sites.

You can also find an index of all those local south african site here....

http://www.locallist.co.za/index.php
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Oh crap, so they use HTTP filtering to define local...that's not very nice given that my IS server is most definitely local, and I would have thought that the primary use of uncapped local would be for corporates to access local servers.

Thanks for info tho - most helpful. :)
 
ChrisbChrisb said:
Oh crap, so they use HTTP filtering to define local...that's not very nice given that my IS server is most definitely local, and I would have thought that the primary use of uncapped local would be for corporates to access local servers.

Thanks for info tho - most helpful. :)
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um, I thought it was by IP range.... if the server is within the IP ranges designated as South African then it will be accessible from local only. Is that the same as HTTP filtering?
 
If you have a server hosted at an SA datacentre then yes, you can set it up as a proxy, connect to said proxy with local-only account, and use the IS server international bandwidth.

I do. :)
 
ChrisbChrisb said:
Oh crap, so they use HTTP filtering to define local...that's not very nice given that my IS server is most definitely local, and I would have thought that the primary use of uncapped local would be for corporates to access local servers.

Thanks for info tho - most helpful. :)
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SA IP ranges,not Filtering. They do however filter once all caps are used up to only be able to access telkom.co.za :P

Server uncapped + proxy <- Local-only from home = International albeit slower ( your work uplink speed will be your home downlink speed )
 
dshutts said:
If you have a server hosted at an SA datacentre then yes, you can set it up as a proxy, connect to said proxy with local-only account, and use the IS server international bandwidth.

I do. :)
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Niiice!
Would you be so kind as to tell me what software you use to create the proxy? Never done it before, but sure it can't be too hard to figure out. And are you safe from others using your proxy. Even better, can I explicitly allow others? Given that your home ADSL connection will change IP every dial-in so IP firewalling isn't gonna hack it.
 
Garyvdh said:
um, I thought it was by IP range.... if the server is within the IP ranges designated as South African then it will be accessible from local only. Is that the same as HTTP filtering?
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U R right. FlagFox does indeed show my URL as SA, AND when I surf to the IP of the web server it also shows as SA.
So, if flagfox and Telkom's definition of 'local' align, then it's IP based (as it should be).
However, my url and IP are not in the localsites index, so there is still a risk that Telkom uses an index like that rather than the IP.

On 29th I'm gonna hammer my cap and see what happens to the spillover when I hammer a local ftp. Sorry for anyone around Lonehill who is contending ADSL with me :)
 
PsyWulf said:
SA IP ranges,not Filtering. They do however filter once all caps are used up to only be able to access telkom.co.za :P

Server uncapped + proxy <- Local-only from home = International albeit slower ( your work uplink speed will be your home downlink speed )
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Helpful - thanks - if server is on Adsl, then that's gonna hurt.
In my case a server at IS has stunning uplink speed cos that's effectively it's outgoing pipe to the world.
 
Easiest way is just to create a tunnel over ssh between your pc and server, set proxy in firefox / whatever to 127.0.0.1.

Secure, encrypted, quick. For me often quicker than proxy-less downloading.

Otherwise you can set up proxy software on your server, just make sure that you secure it properly.
 
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