Speed test...

The last I heard [June] it was in the region of 30.
It also include some parts of Lenesia
I gather most of them are used for internet cafes, since Telkom doenst offer adsl in Soweto
 
i'm getting 101.4 KiloBytes per second. Morningside, no external, have no idea how far i am from the tower.

Pity my torrents don't go this fast. f**k bandwidh shaping!!!!
 
native said:
The last I heard [June] it was in the region of 30.
It also include some parts of Lenesia
I gather most of them are used for internet cafes, since Telkom doenst offer adsl in Soweto
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Forgive me if I sound dof but surely then less users on the tower = less problems? :o
 
slimothy said:
its packet shaping and you can get aroun dit
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yeah i know, my colleague (rebel), is using ur server to get all his stuff over HTTP off your server.

Any other cool tricks (apart from knowing people with interesting setups ?)
 
lol BigJ, are you a bit bored or something :)

Well since I definatly am I'll give you the short version, trafic management software can only effectivly manage software by looking at traffic at a low level, so rather than looking at what the overall data contains (like collecting all the web page data to see its a webpage) they look at individual packets (as uou know I'm sure the data you send/receieve is split into tiny segments called packets).

They need to know what sort of service you are hosting/using so they can throttle it better, so with port shaping they just check the source and destination ports. So they can tell if you are downloading from port 80 it is probably HTTP. With packet shaping they have a piece of software that actually checks the packets you send or receive to decide what you're doing, the software is called just a packet shaper or intelligent firewall. They are pretty deadly because they can manipulate your traffic at the packet level but theres a simple workaround, just change the way the traffic looks and it probably won't get shaped.

There you go, 10 points for me
 
tried that, setting soulseek and bittorrent to port 80, all i got was conflicts when i tried browsing. am i missing something ?
 
milez_away said:
yeah i know, my colleague (rebel), is using ur server to get all his stuff over HTTP off your server.

Any other cool tricks (apart from knowing people with interesting setups ?)
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like I said you just need to change the way the traffic looks or us a type of traffic they don't inspect. If they packet shape http badly and i use a socks proxy suddenly it doesnt look like http traffic to the packet shaper and won't get shaped, you can also use encryption, tunneling, bridges.. there are basically a ton of workarounds all with the same goal to make the traffic look different.
 
Ill make it 100 points and an "I love WBS" bumper sticker/ t-shirt if you can point me at some software. :D
 
milez_away said:
tried that, setting soulseek and bittorrent to port 80, all i got was conflicts when i tried browsing. am i missing something ?
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well the reason they use packet shaping is because things like bittorrent are so configurable they run on any port, you can run it on port 32 and the guy you download from can use port 65532 so they cannot port shape it. SO they packet shape by inspecting the traffic if it matches rules in the intelligent firewall it is flagged as torrent traffic and bam they limit the amount of conections you have have and shape the speed. with BT 4 its worse because they mark the packets as bulk so you neeed to change the way the traffic looks.
 
Sorry, misread ur reply.

Ok, let me explain: This packet/ port stuff is all new to me and changing the things u explain, well, fry my brain. Is there a site I can go read up on it?
 
well most of the work being done to find ways around it is by software engineering students at universities where they now use packet shaping, so you can find their resouces but I need to warn you its a lot of technical babble, I am part of a open source p2p project known as Rodi and one of its features is to allow ways to get around packet shaping. I think its page is the best resource to learn about packet shaping... its still a little technical but very thourough and written by larytet who basically pimped all that knowledge to me and is a god

http://larytet.sourceforge.net/btRat.shtml
 
slimothy said:
well most of the work being done to find ways around it is by software engineering students at universities where they now use packet shaping, so you can find their resouces but I need to warn you its a lot of technical babble, I am part of a open source p2p project known as Rodi and one of its features is to allow ways to get around packet shaping. I think its page is the best resource to learn about packet shaping... its still a little technical but very thourough and written by larytet who basically pimped all that knowledge to me and is a god

http://larytet.sourceforge.net/btRat.shtml
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Thanks. None of this is my profession but I spend so much cash on this friggin pile of plastic and glass, might as well make it worth it. Sounds like u got it in the bag so Ill check it out.

Ps 100 points e-mailed to you and a waffle iron is in the post (out of stock on stickers and wbs promised t-shirts when they get their act into gear) :D
 
# Download time: 3.935 seconds
# Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
# Estimated line speed: 1036.8 (kilobits/second)
# Estimated line speed: 127.1 (kiloBytes/second)

UTD Download @ 134 (kiloBytes/second)
 
My iBurst really sucks balls at the moment.

I'm not sure if it is my house or living in Cape Town but my iBurst has been constant at 250kbs. As you can imagine i am quite aggitated and am just wondering if it gets any better.
 
mR HeAd, in general CT does not suffer most the problems that they have in jhb.

As a matter of interrest which tower do you connect to, or which area are you in?
 
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