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Daniedj

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I'm currently in a "situation" where I'm going to be without a 10Gig International account after the end of the month. The company I work for decided to get uncapped ADSL at the headoffice through DataPro (because they need static IP's, having an uncapped account for them is a bonus :rolleyes: ) and cancel the 10Gig account. Both offices used this account for large database transfers but now I must find cost effective way to still be able to link the two sites and still do normal international traffic.

I wanna run a VPN from that office to mine but I'm worried that these 30Gig local accounts will not work. Since I use Hamachi to establish the VPN connection I must have an account with a little international and a lot local. Or two separate accounts. And since Datapro's uncapped is running off IS I'll need a ISP that uses IS aswell.

Sounds like OpenWeb gets good reviews but will it work in my setup? I've this idea that OpenWeb uses software that routes all traffic from my PC like a proxy server. Since Hamachi can't use proxy servers and needs a direct internet connection I'm worried that it might not work.

I am not sure about the following aswell:

As far as I know traffic between SAIX and IS will route internationally i.e. a request from SAIX to IS will go to the UK or wherever and then get routed back to SA to IS. Is this then still counted as local traffic. Or do I have it completely wrong!

Any advice would be much apreciated.
 
Local traffic is local traffic, from IS to SAIX and back is local. What might work is if you get a 1 gb prepaid saix from web africa and a 30gb local from Openweb. Then use a program called routesentry to route all international traffic through webafrica and all local through Openweb. This way hamatchi can connect and all traffic between the two companies goes through the local accounts.
 
Openweb AFAIK don't give any intl with the local accounts. I would look for one of those who give 1Gig intl + 30Gig local IS - I believe there is one around R99 pm. You will have to google it though, can't remember where....
 
Hi Danie,

What I suggest you do is scrap Hamachi and go with a OpenVPN or Windows VPN setup. Both are free.

That way you wont need the interntional bandwidth.

Alternatively, you could go with a R99 1GB and R139 30GB and use PPPoE and routesentry (or a similar route rule setup).

Let me know if I can be of any help!

Regards,
 
OpenVPN

Equinox said:
Hi Danie,

What I suggest you do is scrap Hamachi and go with a OpenVPN or Windows VPN setup. Both are free.

That way you wont need the interntional bandwidth.

Alternatively, you could go with a R99 1GB and R139 30GB and use PPPoE and routesentry (or a similar route rule setup).

Let me know if I can be of any help!

Regards,
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Hi Equinox,

I use a Linksys Router with DD-WRT and I know that OpenVPN is built into one of the builds but have not tried it. There is also a new Microsoft P2P standard out that uses PNRP 2 but have not seen any software that uses it.

Routing is not my strong point that is why I like Hamachi. It's quick and it works. But I'll have a look into OpenVPN like you suggested.
 
Teredo Tunneling

Does anyone know about Teredo Tunneling? How to implement?
 
I tried getting more info on openvpn still waiting for mrbeep and Equinox to come back to me. Does anyone have any idea how it works and what software i need ?
 
OpenVPN is the software needed for setting up a VPN. Period.
 
So you're sorted then?

It always helps to ask the people that know and the best place for that is forums. Well done for the good advice and keep it up, you really are making a difference in a lot of people lives :)
 
Equinox said:
Hi Danie,

What I suggest you do is scrap Hamachi and go with a OpenVPN or Windows VPN setup. Both are free.

That way you wont need the interntional bandwidth.

Alternatively, you could go with a R99 1GB and R139 30GB and use PPPoE and routesentry (or a similar route rule setup).

Let me know if I can be of any help!

Regards,
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That would be the best setup to use, local only and use OpenVPN etc, however if you wanna use int, understanding they gonna market for their own product, 1GB and monthly carryover will be best for R70 per 1GB unlimited prepaid and rollover from WebAfrica instead of the R99 1GB option.

I have always recommended the OpenWeb 30GB Local and WebAfrica Prepaid system in a combo.

Equinox, just so I myself am sure, the 1GB is that month to month, or can it be carried over to the following month?
 
bullfrog said:
That R99 one is month to month, 1/10gb account ;)
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you gonna need to cap the int to use the local so no use in the situation. Thats why he gets the 30GB local seperate.
I honestly cant not have international, and thats just for home use personally.

3GB/30GB Accounts dont make sense, maybe there are good situations you can use it, otherwise getting two seperate accounts sounds to be the answer.
 
I have one 1/10gb account and 2gb/month WA prepaid. I finish off the first gb of my 1/10gb account within the first 5 days about. I use it to download international stuff if I really need to. That way I save on my 2gb international and don't have to waste it on big downloads ;)

I just don't see the point in getting a 10gb local only for R20 cheaper if I can have 1gb int extra. I also don't need a whole 30gb for R40 more either, so this is perfect for me.
 
With these Openweb 1/10 accounts, do you get ie 11 Gigs in total? or is it that 1 gig of the 10 is international?
 
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