Screamer ADSL

Looks like it is down from about 03:30 onwards. My WA link is slow as well, though usable.
 
Just connected now and it's working again. Not sure for how long, as I was out a while.
 
hey guys...i'm trying to download a torrent via VUZE...it keeps showing a yellow smiley telling me that there is a NAT problem. can anyone tell me how to fix this?
 
You can't fix that because of Screamer's NATting system. Unless they give out the public IPs as they said they would. I think most users have given up on that front by now, maybe they will do it in the future.

There was some story that you can pay extra for a special modem to get a public IP, ask Screamer about that, I don't think anyone has gone for it here.
 
So no one has external IP's?

IE, I will not be able to setup Remote Desktop to my pc on screamer?
 
Techrat said:
You can't fix that because of Screamer's NATting system. Unless they give out the public IPs as they said they would. I think most users have given up on that front by now, maybe they will do it in the future.

There was some story that you can pay extra for a special modem to get a public IP, ask Screamer about that, I don't think anyone has gone for it here.
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ok thanks for that... really hope they sort it out soon...
by the way, what are the effects of this problem?
 
mrudling said:
So no one has external IP's?

IE, I will not be able to setup Remote Desktop to my pc on screamer?
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Nope, not directly. But there are options:

You will need some 3rd party services that creates a kind of virtual network within the internet for the PCs you want to connect to..

LogMein works great and it is free : https://secure.logmein.com/US/home.aspx

Basically all your pcs log into a central service [provided by LogmeIn] and then they can all interconnect . LogMeIn also got a free VPN one (call Hamachi) if you're not interested in Remote Desktop, but rather want to share files/FTP/devices between your PCs.


looney786 said:
ok thanks for that... really hope they sort it out soon...
by the way, what are the effects of this problem?
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I believe someone explained it nicely a bunch of pages earlier in this thread. Basically all services that checks your IP will see -everyone- using Screamer as the one and same person. So it will look like one person is connecting from 3000 different PCs. Most services don't necissarily use your IP for anything and rather use your login/pw (that is why you create accounts) , but i.e. Rapidshare/Megaupload and such limits the amount of connections from the same IP. You will get messages like "you are already downloading something, please try later".

Obviously you won't be able to directly connect to your PC that are on Screamer from say your Work PC either (as mentioned above) because you don't have a unique IP. But fortunately there are ways around that with VPN technologies. But if you were thinking of hosting a website (or anything really) from your PC to the entire world, you might have a problem.....since you can't put the entire world on your little VPN .
 
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diabolus said:
Nope, not directly. But there are options:

You will need some 3rd party services that creates a kind of virtual network within the internet for the PCs you want to connect to..

LogMein works great and it is free : https://secure.logmein.com/US/home.aspx

Basically all your pcs log into a central service [provided by LogmeIn] and then they can all interconnect . LogMeIn also got a free VPN one (call Hamachi) if you're not interested in Remote Desktop, but rather want to share files/FTP/devices between your PCs.




I believe someone explained it nicely a bunch of pages earlier in this thread. Basically all services that checks your IP will see -everyone- using Screamer as the one and same person. So it will look like one person is connecting from 3000 different PCs. Most services don't necissarily use your IP for anything and rather use your login/pw (that is why you create accounts) , but i.e. Rapidshare/Megaupload and such limits the amount of connections from the same IP. You will get messages like "you are already downloading something, please try later".

Obviously you won't be able to directly connect to your PC that are on Screamer from say your Work PC either (as mentioned above) because you don't have a unique IP. But fortunately there are ways around that with VPN technologies. But if you were thinking of hosting a website (or anything really) from your PC to the entire world, you might have a problem.....since you can't put the entire world on your little VPN .
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ah sorry i forgot about the earlier page...but thanks for the info!
 
Day 5, Still cant get hold of Screamer staff and no feedback from them whatsoever. I give up now...
 
anyone have connectivity?
mines is still dead.

EDIT: I am connected again. Took a call to the call centre to get it sorted.
 
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Well, haven't been here for a while, why? Because broke my laptop... haha..

Connected via another PC, and it's going again.

Going @ 12kb ... torrents. Not the best but i won't moan.
 
does anyone know how to use the screamer adsl usage tool properly? i've found that i have to restart my router every time i want to check my recent usage..even then it seems to be delayed by a few days.
eg i restarted my router this morning but it only shows usage upto the 21st January.
 
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