Some ADSL noob questions

[hArTh]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by sybawoods</i>
<br />Yeah, much as we bitch and groan, once you make the step up from dial up to ADSL, always-on etc, you wonder how you got by in the past.

Now to make sure you're fully protected with your firewall. One of the biggest eye openers for me was the extent of malicious port scans and other crap that goes on when you have an always on-connection. Your bandwidth can get raped in a day or two if you're not careful - even the odd piece of spyware can bleed you dry. Get protected asap brutha!
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hehe ... I use smoothwall. That be a mean ass firewall.
I've changed my ADSL modem pw too.

And I run ZA on my main XP box to stop any progies dialin home.

Man I'm very impressed with the dl speeds.
P2p flies on port 80!
Local pings are like 15-30 ms with zero pl.
Can hardly tear myself away to type here ...


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[TheVoice]

Yep, I know waht you mean. I got my broadband installed a few months ago (mid-June) and when I first got it I was amazed at just how quick it was.

The novelty wears off though and you soon get used to having things appear so much faster. Being able to use it any time of day has it's disadvantages though...you end up spending more time on the internet and less time on whatever you're supposed to be doing!

 

[hArTh]

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The novelty wears off though and you soon get used to having things appear so much faster. Being able to use it any time of day has it's disadvantages though...you end up spending more time on the internet and less time on whatever you're supposed to be doing!
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LOL

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[MyLowBandwidth]

H, u using Kazaa / Gnu to P2P or Overnet (E-mule / donkey)

Cape Town 128K 18% Tower 22 (Salt River) PPPoE, IPCop

 

[hArTh]

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<br />H, u using Kazaa / Gnu to P2P or Overnet (E-mule / donkey)

Cape Town 128K 18% Tower 22 (Salt River) PPPoE, IPCop
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So far I've tested local and int bitorrents (on port 80) ... they flew. 40-55K downloads.

I plan to do some shareaza (multiclient p2p - very good if you havent used yet) testing soon. But I will need some time to do more testing.

For local gaming is awesome: 15-35 ms pings.


If you want something specific tested mail me the ed2k link or equivalent and I'll give it a test whirl.

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[andres101]

regarding switching accounts...

get PPPOE running on linux (if not already) and just do some crontab to switch the connection at the specified times. it might be easier to connect both simultaniously (spel?) and just change the route/gateway at the specified time. (btw. you can connect both accounts at the same time but still only get the same speeds).

let me know if you can get it working and how. i first need to get my 2nd network card before i let gentoo to do the PPPOE-ting for me.

 

[hArTh]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by andres101</i>
<br />regarding switching accounts...

get PPPOE running on linux (if not already) and just do some crontab to switch the connection at the specified times. it might be easier to connect both simultaniously (spel?) and just change the route/gateway at the specified time. (btw. you can connect both accounts at the same time but still only get the same speeds).

let me know if you can get it working and how. i first need to get my 2nd network card before i let gentoo to do the PPPOE-ting for me.
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Dude I have Rodent backing me up .... theirs nothing I wont be able to do on Linux.

[}][}][}] &lt;- Already swotting up linux routing howtos.

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