Iburst p2p and torrent problems

[Hein_JHB]

I tried secureix free VPN ( http://www.secureix.com ) today and it seems if it is working but still slow speeds but it is downloading and i am capped and I am thinking of getting me a 3 day subscription.

and it is easy to setup and with 1Gig email address with 50MB attachment limit.

PPTP Server: vpn.secureix.com

To setup a VPN connection under Microsoft Windows follow these steps:

1. Enter the 'Control Panel'
2. Select 'Network Connections'
3. Click on the "Create a new connection link"
4. Select "Connect to the network at my workplace"
5. Select "Virtual Private Network Connection"
6. Enter "SecureIX" as the company name
7. Select "Do not dial the initial connection"
8. Enter "vpn.secureix.com" as the Host name
9. Check the "Add a shortcut to this connection to my desktop"
10. Click "Finish"

The first time you connect you will be asked for the user name and password. Enter the same user name (including the @secureix.com) and password you used when creating your account into your VPN connection window. We suggest that you click the save password so you don't have to re-enter it each time you turn on the VPN.

You can also enable the "automatically re-dial this connection" feature if you wish for it to remain on at all times.

 

[marine1]

And then once this is done how does it work with utorrent for eg?

 

[Hein_JHB]

I done it and the torrents doesn't give me "connection closed by peer" msg again in uTorrent. You can also read on the uTorrent forums about port shaping

 

[marine1]

What do yu need to do once u connect. Do you have to set up Utorrent ?

 

[JTech]

All good and well... how much data can you transfer though?

 

[marine1]

Do you have to configure Utorrent ?

 

[marine1]

Hellooo?

 

[JTech]

OK, I signed up. It seems that I can make it work by reconfiguring OpenVPN that is still installed on my machine from Clipse's PayVPN days.

Will try it and let you know

 

[Hein_JHB]

Cool, I tried it on Windows Vista and it also connects but OpenVPN does not work on Windows Vista.

PS: My NukeCap username and password stopped working yesterday night

 

[JTech]

OpenVPN does not support the PPTP protocol needed for this. However it's simpler if Windows has the built-in software for this.

I cannot get it to work with Windows 2000 at present.

 

[Donovan]

I got connected on OS X, but the service did not fix the problems I'm experiencing.

 

[JTech]

I got it to work eventually on Win2k, had to load service packs

Service connects.. only improvement is that my torrents seed, but NOTHING DOWNLOADS What the hell use is that?

I read on some overseas forums that some ISP's got smart on this one, and Iburst is likely throttling PPTP VPN too, as they do offer a VPN service but at a cost that is more than I earn in 3 months.

Remember that OpenVPN used UDP, and that's probably why it worked so well.

The jury is out on this one still though, as I want to play with bittorrent clients and see if that helps.

What I do note is that the VPN is working similarly to the OpenVPN from Cheetah IS, the difference of course is that http traffic is very sluggish, me thinks the free service is crappy and they use this to make you migrate to the premium services TANSTAAFL!

 

[JTech]

I've done various interesting things, and what I have found is that the key port range for torrents i.e. TCP/UDP range 6881 ~ 6999 is BLOCKED on secureix, so that's why it doesn't work for most of us.
Am considering not wasting any more time with VPN shyte and looking at getting hosting to do the downloads

 

[TheLoot]

Cool, I tried it on Windows Vista and it also connects but OpenVPN does not work on Windows Vista.

PS: My NukeCap username and password stopped working yesterday night

I Googled NukeCap and found a thread on this forum dating back to 2005, but the link given there to sign-up doesn't work anymore. I found another link, which also doesn't work. Is this service still running ?!

 

[JTech]

Clearly not
the service isn't running. Why do you think we're stuck?

 

[Hein_JHB]

try www.your-freedem.net

that one works for me. I also got problems with http://www.secureix.com

 

[JTech]

Will try it, but I remain sceptical... I have analyzed some data, iBurst got clever and they're blocking proxies aswell, so that will not work. VPN is the only solution, and they won't block that because then they'd not be able to offer it to their customers as a ISP service.