Local during International Cap

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Im not sure if there is already such a thread but i don't know how to search for it, coz there is too many results when i look. Any ways is there some way that you can surf on your local cap without letting it deduct from your international cap? Some kind of proxy thing...i dont know much about proxy severs and etc. I would love to know because i only play local gaming servers and my parents are complaining about the cap disappearing :P help please!

Thank you :D
 
It depends what service provider you are using. Assuming you meant to post in the ADSL section, then we can rule out Telkom.
 
what most people here do is to buy a separate local account from their international account. Then you put your router into bridge mode with the international account settings. And you create a dial-up link (PPPoE) on your computer to dial-up to the local account. That way your parents can use all the international and you can use all the local.
 
i had the ADSL section open in a tab as well as this section thats why i accidentally posted it here, i tried deleting it but no success. anyway thanx for getting back to me! my ISP is Telkom, i have a 4GB international cap and after that it goes over to 30GB local. which is more than enough, but problem is my brother and my dad are also on the internet, which means 4GB doesn't last long in the house. and the local cap is as good as useless when it comes to steam games. i know about the bridging, but i cant afford local cap on my own. does anyone know how much authentication takes from steam?
 
TheHxckid, a friend of mine had the similar issue with steam not functioning after his international cap has given in. Steam validation/authentication uses very little bandwidth, however playing steam games can take like 30MB+/h (depending on your rates that you've set ingame). For splitting traffic you need 2 separate Internet accounts...
That's why he now bought a 10GB OpenWeb local-only account (for R69pm), which he is using in conjunction with a Telkom mixed (1GB int / local) account. I have set up a Linksys WRT54GL router (that runs DD-WRT 3rd party firmware) behind his D-Link DSL-2460U ADSL router, with Gatecrasher's scripts (see http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=81315) running on the Linksys one to route all the local traffic through the local-only account.

If you don't have a router capable of running DD-WRT firmware, you can try using RouteSentry (see http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=39234) to do the same (routing local traffic through the local-only account), however the RouteSentry type of setup gets complicated when you want to give more than 1 people access to the Internet. To do that you either have to run a proxy or VPN such that the other users can connect to the Internet via the PC that's running RouteSentry OR you have to setup your router in half-bridge mode (which I would recommend), such that the router dials one account - thus allowing people not running RouteSentry to connect to the Internet using the account that the router dialed.

Another way of routing local-only traffic would be to use IPCop (see http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=64649)

Hehe, there's one scaly method remaining for playing local steam games :) That is if you have a friend that has International cap left, to ask him to host a VPN for you. Unfortunately this would require a good knowledge of routing tables for him to setup the VPN such that ONLY steam authentications can go through his VPN.
 
Yoh Pada thanks for all the help! will really look into it!i guess for now i will just have to hold a bit back with the cap every month so i can still jam online :D
 
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