Uses for "local only" accounts?

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Hi Guys

I was wondering if anyone could give me a few suggested ways that a "local only" account could be used. For example, a 10GB "local only" account is very cheap (R79), but what could I do with it?

Thanks!
Saber
 
erm... apart from surfing local sites or sending/receiving email (if I were using a local email address...), what would justify a 10GB local only account?

I know that I could download the latest linux distros such as Ubuntu, but I don't think I'd be able to do the updates as I think the repositories are hosted overseas.

So, would I be able to do anything else with such an account, or is it fairly pointless?
 
DUDE ONE WORD

news server

like p2p or edonkey :)

and why get a 10 gig when for 50 bucks more you get a 30 gig account

is.news.co.za

games
appz
movies
 
killadoob said:
DUDE ONE WORD

news server

like p2p or edonkey :)

and why get a 10 gig when for 50 bucks more you get a 30 gig account

is.news.co.za

games
appz
movies
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Dude, ONE WORD:

Piracy.

Not everyone is a frikken pirate. If someone asks you "What's the point of places that sell Porches and Lamboghinis?" Are you gonna tell them "So that we can steal them!!"?!?! No, you wont.

So answer the question PROPERLY.
 
Saber said:
erm... apart from surfing local sites or sending/receiving email (if I were using a local email address...), what would justify a 10GB local only account?
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For home users :
I think most of the guys use local bandwidth only accounts for :
1. Local multiplayer gaming (mainly mweb and sgs servers)
2. Downloading copyright movies, apps, etc. from the IS news server
3. Sharing copyright movies, apps, etc. on private DC++, torrent, etc. networks

Online gaming doesn't use that much bandwidth - a 6 hour session with 32 users in most games wouldn't use more than 100MB.
This leaves me with the impression that the vast majority of local only bandwidth is used for illegal means.
I'm sure there are guys that use it for legit purposes but they're certainly in the minority.

For corporate customers :
They can link their branch offices together with VPNs and cut their costs of communicating and moving data around by a HUGE amount.
No need for a JHB branch to phone the CPT branch when they can just use VOIP through their VPN connections.
 
IS does actually have an FTP server with Linux ISO's on.

I got Knoppix 5 there the other day. :D
 
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killadoob said:
DUDE ONE WORD

news server

like p2p or edonkey :)

and why get a 10 gig when for 50 bucks more you get a 30 gig account

is.news.co.za
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I think he's gonna have better luck with news.is.co.za ... ;)

That said, search for problems wih the IS news server - there are plenty. Decide for yourself if you think it's worth it.
 
There's also the SGS (saix's games) ftp server you can download stuff from, like game demo's patches and free games. The BF2142 demo alone is 1.02Gb :o
 
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Find open proxies and use them to get international? ;)

ps. it wasnt me
 
DAE_JA_VOO said:
Dude, ONE WORD:

Piracy.

Not everyone is a frikken pirate. If someone asks you "What's the point of places that sell Porches and Lamboghinis?" Are you gonna tell them "So that we can steal them!!"?!?! No, you wont.

So answer the question PROPERLY.
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relax man your going to have a heart attack geez

he asked whats the point of local i told him

can u like to porno?

im glad your not a pirate :) now calm down or your going to have another heart attack

rofl

relax start breathing everything is fine
 
VPN to my office. Connect to apps that run on terminal servers, SSH/telnet into servers that I do work on. Local is really lekker in this case. Why must I use expensive international bandwidth for this.
 
Saber said:
Hi Guys

I was wondering if anyone could give me a few suggested ways that a "local only" account could be used. For example, a 10GB "local only" account is very cheap (R79), but what could I do with it?

Thanks!
Saber
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I would think that a few people, companies in particular would enjoy using them for a vpn.

Apart from that there really isnt much point in local only. I've always considered it an abomination of the internet - you know - world wide web and all.
 
Paul_S said:
Online gaming doesn't use that much bandwidth - a 6 hour session with 32 users in most games wouldn't use more than 100MB.
This leaves me with the impression that the vast majority of local only bandwidth is used for illegal means.
I'm sure there are guys that use it for legit purposes but they're certainly in the minority.
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BF2 uses 100MB PER HOUR son!

Glad to see you like to make judgements about what people do with their bandwidth cause according to you, apparently if you dont play games then more than likely you are a pirate.

The anti-piracy film advert goes 'you wouldn't steal a car' Well I would if I could download it, is the most obivous answer to that one :P

I'm assuming you never ever speed, or break any rule/law at all. Otherwise you wouldn't be so quick to make accusations about other peoples use of teh interweb.

What people do with their bandwidth is up to them.
 
DAE_JA_VOO said:
Dude, ONE WORD:

Piracy.

Not everyone is a frikken pirate. If someone asks you "What's the point of places that sell Porches and Lamboghinis?" Are you gonna tell them "So that we can steal them!!"?!?! No, you wont.

So answer the question PROPERLY.
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don't compare apples and oranges - it proves your stupidity.
 
schitz011 said:
BF2 uses 100MB PER HOUR son!
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I said most games - not all games.
You need new spectacles grandpa.

Glad to see you like to make judgements about what people do with their bandwidth cause according to you, apparently if you dont play games then more than likely you are a pirate.
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Well which home user uses 10GB account for LOCAL surfing and e-mail only?
There simply isn't that much interesting content on local web sites to require all that bandwidth.
The vast majority is used for piracy - prove me wrong.
Go read the threads about the IS news servers, torrents, etc.
For coporate use on stuff like VPNs I can understand the need for lots of local bandwidth.

What people do with their bandwidth is up to them.
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Yes and I was merely responding to the original poster's question.
He wanted to know what people do with all that bandwidth.
I never said people shouldn't download illegal content.
Why are you so defensive? Do you have a guilty conscience bugging you? :rolleyes:
 
Paul_S said:
Well which home user uses 10GB account for LOCAL surfing and e-mail only?
There simply isn't that much interesting content on local web sites to require all that bandwidth.
The vast majority is used for piracy - prove me wrong.
Go read the threads about the IS news servers, torrents, etc.
For coporate use on stuff like VPNs I can understand the need for lots of local bandwidth.
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You seem to forget there's plenty of open source, legal, freely available stuff out there. Also a lot of people only use it as a starting point and connect to some sort of international proxy to get international connectivity.
 
A - Join 2 offices together on a VPN.
B - Play local online games:
SAIX's HOSTED HAMES SERVERS:
Agasa League Servers
America's Army
Battlefield 1942
Battlefield 2
Battlefield 2142 Demo
Call of Duty United Offensive
Call of Duty 2
Counter-Strike 1.6
Counter-Strike Source
Cubegame
Day of Defeat
Day of Defeat Source
Earth Special Forces
Enemy Territory
F.E.A.R.
Freelancer
Ghost Recon
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter
GT Legends
GTR FIA
Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
IL-2 Sturmovik
Joint Operations
Live for Speed
Medal of Honor Allied Assault
Nascar 2003
Natural Selection
Netkar Pro
Neverwinter Nights
Prey
Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45
Quake III
Quake IV
rFactor
TrackMania Nations
Team Fortress Classic
Unreal Tournamnet 2004
Ultima Online
Warsow
C - Broadcast local Radio / TV / Movies / Stuff to your community/friends.
D - VOIP to your friends / community
E - Host your own community website
F - Work from home [VPN to the office]
[Stops .. has feeling nobody's gonna pay him for this info]
 
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