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MrBEEP

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Hey Friends,

I am not sure if many of you can recall that back in the days, we offered a 100% FREE Unshaping Socks server located on our 100mb/s USA backbone, that allows SAIX and iBURST users to get some faster downloads on their P2P and torrent apps.

Well, its back!

Registration to the OpenWeb forum will grant you automatic access to the board containing the Socks v5 address and authentication details.

This free service will run from the 1st until the 15th of each month.

This month however, we have decided to start a little earlier. It will still run to the 15th of May!

The link to the board is: http://openweb.co.za/openweb/index.php/board,102.0.html

I would love to get your feedback as to how it works for you :)

Kind regards
MrBEEP
 
ok now for dunces like me what the hell are you guys talking about. I am a 2G192 openweb customer what is this new account and how will it benefit/harm me?? i currently use the IS news server to d/l from newsgroups.
 
silkman said:
ok now for dunces like me what the hell are you guys talking about. I am a 2G192 openweb customer what is this new account and how will it benefit/harm me?? i currently use the IS news server to d/l from newsgroups.
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AFAIK it's for unshaping international only so it will have no effect on your local access. If you're capped internationally you'll still be capped (if I've understood it correctly that is).

As to how it works - well I've learnt to leave those explinatons to others more in the know :)
 
Yes...

MrBEEP said:
Hey Friends,

I am not sure if many of you can recall that back in the days, we offered a 100% FREE Unshaping Socks server located on our 100mb/s USA backbone, that allows SAIX and iBURST users to get some faster downloads on their P2P and torrent apps.

Well, its back!

Registration to the OpenWeb forum will grant you automatic access to the board containing the Socks v5 address and authentication details.

This free service will run from the 1st until the 15th of each month.

This month however, we have decided to start a little earlier. It will still run to the 15th of May!

The link to the board is: http://openweb.co.za/openweb/index.php/board,102.0.html

I would love to get your feedback as to how it works for you :)

Kind regards
MrBEEP
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I remeber those days - I waited how many weeks and never heard from you... all I got from the "freebie" was spam for the duration of the time I was waiting and had to eventually ask you to please stop sending ads. Don't waste my time - for those that have enjoyed the service - fine - I am just voicing my own opinion.
 
It's more for SAIX and iBurst users whose accounts are shaped to death. Using the proxy would effectively unshape your account. If you're on IS there's no need to use the proxy because your account is already unshaped.
 
I expected better support for offering a free service.

Sorry to have wasted your time.

EdRobinson said:
I remeber those days - I waited how many weeks and never heard from you... all I got from the "freebie" was spam for the duration of the time I was waiting and had to eventually ask you to please stop sending ads. Don't waste my time - for those that have enjoyed the service - fine - I am just voicing my own opinion.
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Enjoy Brother!!

SuperAntMD said:
Wooohooo!!!! burning off my cap right now, Thanks a heap this reminds me of the good ol days
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Ok - demystify this for me - Apart from the r59 and the free one only being available for the first half of a month - what is the difference between the Free Unshaping Socks Server and the OpenWeb Unshaped Socks Full account that I signed up for last month?
 
Hey Bro,

The R59 accounts are hosted on a different server all together, with MUCH lower contention ratios, leading to improved speeds.

I hope this helps.

Kind regards
MrBEEP

bwana v.10 said:
Ok - demystify this for me - Apart from the r59 and the free one only being available for the first half of a month - what is the difference between the Free Unshaping Socks Server and the OpenWeb Unshaped Socks Full account that I signed up for last month?
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MrBEEP said:
Hey Bro,

The R59 accounts are hosted on a different server all together, with MUCH lower contention ratios, leading to improved speeds.

I hope this helps.

Kind regards
MrBEEP
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Thanks. :)
 
Very cool! Thx mrbeep.

ignore the idiots, we love what you do for us.
 
MrBeep, maybe you guys should spell out all your options on your website, to the nth degree, and you wouldn't get so much confusion over your products, for example that paying customers to the proxy are hosted on a different server. Just a thought.
 
Looks like Mr BEEP's been doing too much downloading!
I followed the link to openweb and got "509 Bandwidth Exceeded"
 
Bandwidth Limit Exceeded
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later.
Apache/1.3.33 Server at www.openweb.co.za Port 80
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raZer said:
Looks like Mr BEEP's been doing too much downloading!
I followed the link to openweb and got "509 Bandwidth Exceeded"
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No it means the bandwidth allowance for the site has been exceeded.
 
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