No more ADSL resets

Isn't this old news? I remember reading about this, and noticing that my resets had stopped, months ago already? Or was I in the future dreaming.. ?! I think i can time travel without knowing it! :D
 
SlappY said:
I still dont see what the big deal with IP resets is?
Can someone please explain why it matters?
I mean it is not like it is feasible to run a web server or services off ADSL anyways.
Then there is always dynamic DNS.
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1. It is definitely feasible if there is little traffic.
2. Even with dynamic DNS you have a small timeframe during which the dns must be refreshed.
 
fragtion_ said:
Isn't this old news? I remember reading about this, and noticing that my resets had stopped, months ago already? Or was I in the future dreaming.. ?! I think i can time travel without knowing it! :D
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Been like this since November 07 - very old news... I would love to know where mybroadband got their 'news' from...
 
MFour said:
The internet is used for more things than surfing, e-mail, illegal downloading of whatever. If you don't know what other perfectly legal and legit uses there are, try making use your internet for some research and find out.
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Cant agree more.. sometimes its more than "downloads". My wife has to Upload her research to Cern in Switzerland and too Jlab in the USA after she has done her work. Some of these files are 2-3 gigs big. You cant resume an upload.. or at least not anyway I have found yet when she uses SSH to log into the overseas servers.
2.99gigs into a file with a reset.. costs me money, plain and simple!
 
Kalvaer said:
Cant agree more.. sometimes its more than "downloads". My wife has to Upload her research to Cern in Switzerland and too Jlab in the USA after she has done her work. Some of these files are 2-3 gigs big. You cant resume an upload.. or at least not anyway I have found yet when she uses SSH to log into the overseas servers.
2.99gigs into a file with a reset.. costs me money, plain and simple!
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Ever thought of uploading to a local server/company/FTP via DVD and let them download. Just a though.

I just downloaded a few 3.3 Gig files. ISO's Total 14Gig for July.

Thats a pain.
 
UnoPanelvan said:
Ever thought of uploading to a local server/company/FTP via DVD and let them download. Just a though.
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She cant. She is working with live Data from the accelerators, So she had to dump back her files directly into their system to run live while the data from the formula's she creates is sent back to her live again to re analyse
 
My local openweb account got capped early this month (weird and another story), i called openweb to enquire, and they told me, "hey, this is weird, your IP has been teh same the whole month"....lol.
 
Kalvaer said:
Cant agree more.. sometimes its more than "downloads". My wife has to Upload her research to Cern in Switzerland and too Jlab in the USA after she has done her work. Some of these files are 2-3 gigs big. You cant resume an upload.. or at least not anyway I have found yet when she uses SSH to log into the overseas servers.
2.99gigs into a file with a reset.. costs me money, plain and simple!
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Can you not tar/rar/zip the file into smaller segments and reconstitue it on the other side? I'm not entirely sure how she's copying files using ssh, but I'm assuming it's just scp or sftp and the other server should be able to be configured for resume. If it isn't, request the server maintainer change that, they should be willing.

Another option if she has SSH access to the other server, is to setup an FTP server on your side, ssh to the other box, and ftp the files from yourself instead of pushing them to the other server. Then your server could support resume ;)
 
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Chunkyfeather said:
My local openweb account got capped early this month (weird and another story), i called openweb to enquire, and they told me, "hey, this is weird, your IP has been teh same the whole month"....lol.
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Since the resets ended my usage has not been updated hourly (as it usually was), but is now done usually every three or so hours. Suits me fine though.
 
tjunyat said:
Can you not tar/rar/zip the file into smaller segments and reconstitue it on the other side? I'm not entirely sure how she's copying files using ssh, but I'm assuming it's just scp or sftp and the other server should be able to be configured for resume. If it isn't, request the server maintainer change that, they should be willing.

Another option if she has SSH access to the other server, is to setup an FTP server on your side, ssh to the other box, and ftp the files from yourself instead of pushing them to the other server. Then your server could support resume ;)
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I'll ask her to check and see what she needs. The biggest problem with most of what she does is that most if it done at, or through WITS.

And the admins there I have heard are all anal. Wont even allow them to use skype from within the network... But are happy to pay for them to phone via land lines to the USA all day????
 
Kalvaer said:
I'll ask her to check and see what she needs. The biggest problem with most of what she does is that most if it done at, or through WITS.

And the admins there I have heard are all anal. Wont even allow them to use skype from within the network... But are happy to pay for them to phone via land lines to the USA all day????
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The funny thing is, Skype as a telecommunications system is a lot more secure than a landline. Skype uses 256-bit encryption, something which beats a phone's bugging capabilities by quite a bit...
 
froot said:
The funny thing is, Skype as a telecommunications system is a lot more secure than a landline. Skype uses 256-bit encryption, something which beats a phone's bugging capabilities by quite a bit...
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Try explain that to them.. Its taken them 2-3 years I think to allow them to start setting up their grid computing... And then still only through a DMZ as far as I can tell. (spent the last 4 nights with the guys on a conference discussing it at wits this last week.. but ended up drinking to much to understand :D )
 
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Whoah... what the hell? No that's just nasty.... Take that away and you have (probably) the most secure widely-available online-phone.

Luckily for me I use the Hamachi VPN and a PTT communications program. Hamachi, like Skype, uses 256-bit encryption, but the plus is that Hamachi is based on an authorised connection. So listening to my conversations will be next to impossible, even for the best of the best.
 
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