Rizza
Member
Alright, I thought I had it all figured out & knew how to get around the cap. I got myself a high speed south african proxy on port 80 (which happens to be anonymous) and used it to channel my downloads through it, funnily enough it did work at first.
I was definetly capped towards the end of last month, it was confirmed by saix & the international transfers were behaving as they do once your capped (ie.: hardly move at all). I used this proxy and my downloads hit 50kb a sec, excellent. God knows why though, maybe they reset the cap too early or something, anyways its not working anymore. After I hit the cap again this month I had one or two short bursts inbetween where my downloads hit 50kb again but not anymore.
My question is how can telkom figure out where the traffic is coming from ? Essentially, although capped, any downloads going through the SA proxy should be logged as local transfers and as such not be affected by the speed limits set for international transfers..
Please forgive my limited knowledge in these matters, but are they running some special software to detect proxies, because they cant be doing it by port, it beeing port 80 and all...
How would anything beeing sent to me by the proxy server be different in any way to a file transfer from a south african site ?
I was definetly capped towards the end of last month, it was confirmed by saix & the international transfers were behaving as they do once your capped (ie.: hardly move at all). I used this proxy and my downloads hit 50kb a sec, excellent. God knows why though, maybe they reset the cap too early or something, anyways its not working anymore. After I hit the cap again this month I had one or two short bursts inbetween where my downloads hit 50kb again but not anymore.
My question is how can telkom figure out where the traffic is coming from ? Essentially, although capped, any downloads going through the SA proxy should be logged as local transfers and as such not be affected by the speed limits set for international transfers..
Please forgive my limited knowledge in these matters, but are they running some special software to detect proxies, because they cant be doing it by port, it beeing port 80 and all...
How would anything beeing sent to me by the proxy server be different in any way to a file transfer from a south african site ?
. I'm not trying to find out why I hit the cap, I'm trying to find out why I cant bypass with the help of a local proxy server...