OpenBrowse

[I34z1k]

What exactly is this open browse? Does your line get reduced to 192 or 128 when you reach your cap but you can still browse? What the catch?

 

[Turbo_Aspiration]

open browse is a locally based http proxy. When ur capped, u can still get local bandwidth.. so u connect to the open browse proxy locally and it does the international stuff on your behalf. Its not your line that gets reduced, rather u r only allocated 192k or 128k of bandwidth on the proxy

 

[I34z1k]

Ok... That complicated. Can you put it a bit more basicaly?

 

[Turbo_Aspiration]

Ok.. imagine south africa is a jail, now telkom is the warden... when u reach your cap, telkom locks the doors and throws away the key until the next month. This means u cant go outside the south african borders. Now openbrowse is your buddy on the outside, he runs around the the world getting the stuff u want and brings it to south africa for u.. but he can only do it at 128k or 192k

 

[I34z1k]

Ok. That is a bit simpler. So i can't directly browse? Locally? Sorry bout the dum Qs.

 

[Turbo_Aspiration]

Not dum at all. The whole point of openbrowse at the moment is to allow international browsing with the 30gig local cap IS is allowing from 1November. U wont b able to browse international directly after u blow your 3gig international cap, but the proxy is in SA so ull b able to access it and it will pick up international stuff for u. U can do local directly, and at the full speed of your line without going thru the proxy

 

[I34z1k]

Ok so uncapped local stuff? What exactly is a proxy? I have no clue.

 

[Turbo_Aspiration]

After 1Nov all SAIX (telkom) based account will be capped at 3gb... national and international, once u hit it.. ur dead. But with IS, they offer 27gb local access after your 3gb.

A proxy is basically a computer that sits in between u and what u want. U tell the proxy what u want and it goes and gets it for u. With openbrowse, the proxy lives in south africa, and goes n gets international stuff for u while u r stuck in south africa. U can get the stuff in south africa directly without asking the proxy.

Just note the proxy wont b able to do everything like p2p and irc. A quote from MrBEEP:

OpenBrowse currently only allows browsing, email, messengers and ftp

 

[I34z1k]

Ok. So is a proxy some dude who sits on the internet the whole day getting stuff for people?

 

[arf9999]

Ok. So is a proxy some dude who sits on the internet the whole day getting stuff for people?

try this: http://www.google.co.za/search?q=define:+proxy+server

 

[I34z1k]

OK. Just give me 7 years to finish school and study language. Jeez. That is crazi! But no worries. So is this Openbrowse better than the IS isp? I am on a tight budget. Don't play games online. Sometimes download from torrents.

 

[arf9999]

Openbrowse will not let you download torrents (or any other p2p) just email, normal web browsing, and FTP (file transfer protocol).

If you want to use torrents after being capped, you need another service in addition to openbrowse...

 

[I34z1k]

Nukeproxy or whateva?

 

[Clipse]

Nukeproxy or whateva?

November going to be tricky, our bandwidth cost also shot up and will havta impliment our proxy differently.

At first it will also only be catered towards users access http and few other protocols of less concurrent bandwidth consumption.

I can tell you now, p2p will be excluded at first for many reasons unless we can organize different package for users wanting to p2p but thats still undecided with things changing so rapidly.

 

[I34z1k]

OK? I don't use p2p much but what about torrents? Does that fall under p2p? Well that isn't too bad. I browse more than anyting. Only like 3/4 gigs of torrent a month for me.

 

[Clipse]

torrents fall under peer 2 peer yes.. it uses the same concept of sharing one file via multiple users..

The point is, this wont be allowed via our proxy method from November. We will make the final proxy details available soon.

 

[I34z1k]

Ok. Will the price change much?

 

[Clipse]

Well the new proxy service that will cost extra, will be cheaper than the current pricing, but only HTTP usable.

So yes, it will cost you less.

 

[I34z1k]

Ok.. How will it cost extra but be cheaper. Because only Http instead of everything else?

 

[Clipse]

Well the proxy service will be an extra service, it will cost less for the package available compared to our current packages, which offers p2p etc. aswell.

The reason the new HTTP only proxy packages will cost less per person is simple, bandwidth usage per person will be less by eliminating p2p and thus it would cost us cheaper, then making the package cheaper for the users.