Web Intact (Or intactless service)

happy with my connection since last November '07, more than 90% up-time since adding a bigger antenna/grid.

Is thier any-way of getting better ping\latency speed using GWI wifi or is Tellkom's ADSL the only way to play online games like COD4

RIP Cobus
 
log me in works cause if it can't accept a connection it tunnels out to their main server and you route through that
 
That and logmein use your SSL ports which are open by default on pretty much every ISP.
Like bboy mentioned they will create a tunnel on their own network via the two software adapters and pass requests through the two.
 
Rocket-Boy said:
That and logmein use your SSL ports which are open by default on pretty much every ISP.
Like bboy mentioned they will create a tunnel on their own network via the two software adapters and pass requests through the two.
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and you have to install a client, right?

So both machines make an outgoing connection (to the Internet), which are 'joined' by logmein. That's why it's slow - its going via a third party 'somewhere' on the Internet
 
Hello
MR Webintact is it possibile to get my very own public IP assigned to my Account.
Reason for asking is that i would like to Run a VPN Server from home.
 
Web Intact said:
and you have to install a client, right?

So both machines make an outgoing connection (to the Internet), which are 'joined' by logmein. That's why it's slow - its going via a third party 'somewhere' on the Internet
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Wrong: In the context of the discussions around VPNs and the previous few posts. Outbound UDP connections between two parties on the same/matching ports on either end, regardless of NAT will defeat NAT. All that's required is to negotiate a common port between the two nodes, which sometimes requires an intermediary, but isn't required for carrying traffic.

Logmein, and VNC is capable of negotiating this via a 'reflector'. If it's slow -- well. Ahem.
 
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TheRoDent said:
Wrong: In the context of the discussions around VPNs and the previous few posts. Outbound UDP connections between two parties on the same/matching ports on either end, regardless of NAT will defeat NAT. All that's required is to negotiate a common port between the two nodes, which sometimes requires an intermediary, but isn't required for carrying traffic.

Logmein, and VNC is capable of negotiating this via a 'reflector'. If it's slow -- well. Ahem.
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From logmein's VPN comparison doc:
(https://secure.logmein.com/wp_lmi_vs_vpns.pdf)
LogMeIn establishes a connection with the client computer via an outgoing SSL-secured TCP connection, meaning that no firewall configuration is required.
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Not a mention of UDP anywhere.

And you access your account via their website, and your remote host via a browser, right?
I haven't tried their service, but I have tried GoToMyPC, and what I remember of that service was also pretty slow. I'd guess that the free offering doesn't have high priority on their servers.

btw - what does 'ahem' mean?
 
TheRoDent said:
Wrong: In the context of the discussions around VPNs and the previous few posts. Outbound UDP connections between two parties on the same/matching ports on either end, regardless of NAT will defeat NAT. All that's required is to negotiate a common port between the two nodes, which sometimes requires an intermediary, but isn't required for carrying traffic.

Logmein, and VNC is capable of negotiating this via a 'reflector'. If it's slow -- well. Ahem.
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this is called firewall punching, and if it works is extremely effective at giving you a nice peer to peer connection frpm behind 2 firewalls, however the fall back to this is to then route through a 3rd party.

logmein is plenty fast on dsl in a peer to peer situation, however doing a firewall punch on gwi network as last time i tested always proved to be very unreliable
 
thanks for the details - i guessed it may be p2p of some sort...

What may be the issue is our bandwidth management system we're using on VZN bandwidth (GP & NW only) at the moment - anything that looks like a download from/to a single IP will most likely get crunched, depending on what the overall usage history looks like.

For example - we set a limit of 'x' TB for a month. It uses statistics of usage to determine whether a d/l should be limited or not, based on past and projected consumption that it will determine at any given time.
So - if it is near the end of a period (month) and there is still a lot of GB left of the amount originally specified, then a user might not experience any degradation of their download speed.

P2P doesn't normally get affected too much by this, as there could be many peers you are d/l from, but a single TCP connection doing a large d/l would... and *maybe* LMI gets identified as such. It's just one way we're trying to transparently limit consumption without actually capping - just slowing down the big downloaders where we can.
 
HTP said:
Hi with what software can I test my signal strength to the tower - wind messed my antenna up again :(
My Zerowire antenna site survey shows 26 - 28 what is the best for this if there is no software to test with?
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I would say 26-28 is fine. Mine is 35 at the moment, but can be less with no ill effect. Otherwise I would suggest you get a laptop up on the roof, plug it in, log into the router and then adjust while repeating the site survey.
 
buffalobill said:
No. Wifi = latency. It's in the nature of the technology and something to do with packet order.
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rubbish

wifi may add something stupid like 1ms to 2ms to your traffic, big whoop!

QOS, SHAPING, POOL SHARING, PACKET INSPECTION mess up your latency
 
acidrain said:
Aren't they basically the same thing or at least linked to one another?
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You do Packet Inspection to look at the Contents of a packet and classify them.
You do Packet Filtering to block packets that match a classification.

Once you've classified packets, you can apply QoS, to change priorities of certain types of packets.
 
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