proxy, first as free add on.

[Necuno]

finally something that makes my mass amount of my adsl account seems nicer.

good bey to web africa's R125. hello to ods's R 90 ex
...

 

[m0zy]

Why on earth would you pay R90.00(ex.Vat) for a 1GB proxy service when anyone can get a prepaid unshaped ADSL account from Axxess (R99.00 Incl.Vat)

 

[Necuno]

the proxy is as an unshaped account which the 1gig is FREE each month and then after its R90 for ods's clients which i don't see either them, web africa or open is bettering at the moment for their existing uncapped users...

anyways R90 *1.14 = R102.6 which isn't bad at all for your 2nd gig which in terms of axxess would have costed you now R188 for 2 gig.


...are we going to see openweb add a free 1 gig too ?

 

[LabAnimal]

waste of money!

 

[Necuno]

obviously if you are not using it for skype or something like world of warcraft.

theres a huge difference between a 200ms and 2000ms game...

 

[LabAnimal]

but just 1gig... sorry no. a proxy is either unlimited or no proxy at all....

 

[Hogrod]

Quote from http://www.ods.co.za/Services/uncapped_proxy.asp

"As an uncapped Express or Satellite ADSL user you may have noticed that the latency for applications such as skype, World of Warcraft and international gamming may be slightly slower "

Apparently gamming, which means a group of migrating whales, is slightly slower when going through Satellite, so one should use ODS's proxy so that the Whales can migrate quicker. Now that is an unique offer.

Use a spell checker ODS, its gaming.

 

[Necuno]

lol. not bad description for IS's satelite.

pushing whales through that thing.

and andytl5 its Apparently and not Apparantly.

maybe you should try a spell checker too...

 

[Hogrod]

and andytl5 its Apparently and not Apparantly.

maybe you should try a spell checker too...

Well done, you found my deliberate mistake.
But as if by magic my spelling mistake has vanished! No one will ever know.

Edit*
Well you should let us know how the service goes, and if it is any good!

 

[Necuno]

hehe

 

[WickedWeasel]

Guys its a proxy for clients, if you are an ODS client then your first GB is Free. Its enough for Skye and WOW.

 

[Necuno]

Guys its a proxy for clients, if you are an ODS client then your first GB is Free. Its enough for Skye and WOW.

exactly.

for 1G i could run 2x pc on WoW Eu servers.

 

[Necuno]

first proxy night done....

not bad at all - can get used to this as an add on to my ODS accoun't
just wondering about how many pc's can i put through the proxy thing.


in actual fact would be nice for atleast 2x pc's. then if your 1G is up then just get some more - auto topup feature.

would have liked to see 2x conns and 2gig's...

...but 1g is very nice start
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[Syndyre]

What sort of pings do you get off the proxy?

 

[ldmelsa]

Sorry people, newbie question:

What is a proxy?

Thanks

56kMan (56k forever)

 

[Necuno]

sat3 speeds. just like webafrica or any unshaped account going through saix.

ill do a few tests and put a overall result - there was some realm issues anyways last night.


56kMan.

A proxy server is a computer that offers a computer network service to allow clients to make indirect network connections to other network services. A client connects to the proxy server, then requests a connection, file, or other resource available on a different server. The proxy provides the resource either by connecting to the specified server or by serving it from a cache.

 

[Necuno]

seems that it depends in which area you are in - density of objects

stormwind/battlegrounds low 197, average 450, high 480
astranaar low 200, average 350, high 400ms

currently it gives between 197 and 500ms