If you use RouteSentry...

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Lets say I use RouteSentry to route local over a local account and international over the international account.

If the Telkom proxy servers serve me an image that was cached (for example the Google Image)... which bandwidth account is being used? The local or international one?
 
When your browser tries to fetch that image, it will initiate a request and send it to eg: images.google.com/image.jpg (an international ip address) over your international connection. The transparent proxy will then intercept the request, and if the file is cached, it will serve you a cached copy of it from the proxy. It will send back the cached copy or a fresh copy if the file isn't cached or has expired, however it will send it the ip which initiated the request (your international ip).
 
zamrg said:
When your browser tries to fetch that image, it will initiate a request and send it to eg: images.google.com/image.jpg (an international ip address) over your international connection. The transparent proxy will then intercept the request, and if the file is cached, it will serve you a cached copy of it from the proxy. It will send back the cached copy or a fresh copy if the file isn't cached or has expired, however it will send it the ip which initiated the request (your international ip).
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Thats kind of lame. (Thanks for the explanation)

So technically there's a ton of bandwidth that I pay for that never sees daylight internationally? Damn man. Is there anyway to see if the request has been served from the transparent proxy at all?
 
AcidRaZor said:
Thats kind of lame. (Thanks for the explanation)

So technically there's a ton of bandwidth that I pay for that never sees daylight internationally? Damn man. Is there anyway to see if the request has been served from the transparent proxy at all?
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That is why shaped is cheaper than unshaped.
 
AcidRaZor said:
*pets Gatecrasher on the head* Good boy! *feeds him his treat* Believe the propoganda ;)
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I will avoid the temptation to bite the hand that feeds me. Of course, using the word "cheap" in any of its forms is highly misleading in the SA context. For that I apologise.

I certainly don't believe anyone's propoganda. I only believe what I see.

Local bandwdith costs Telkom less to deliver, and if they can deliver a fair portion of your "international" right off their local cache, then they are saving themselves a bundle. It makes sense then that shaped bandwdith is less expensive.
 
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