Your Freedom Proxy

But fragtion is entitled to his opinion. I just don't share it. I prefer to help others in practical ways, rather than preaching from a soapbox.
Again, it's not my opinion. I told you I want the same thing you do. I'm on your side. You're welcome to disagree with the facts, but I'm telling you that your actions are detrimental to society. It's logically IRRELEVANT whether you "help in other practical ways", or similarly, it's also just as irrelevant where I 'preach' from - it's what I say that counts, not where I say it. If you disagree with my "opinion", please provide me with the facts that support yours. The only fact you've revealed is that you don't give a **** about anybody's needs but your own. I will come out of an anthole and face you even if you were the largest giant, just to to prove that to you, because I know I'm speaking from the facts and am right. So hows about you quit being the hypocrite, and get off YOUR arrogant high horse ? The more you deny the facts and persist covering your crime by shifting the spotlight onto me by means of insult, the more I will persist making a scene to prove my point: that you're destroying your own chances of experiencing quality internet, along with ours, until such time as supplied bandwidth can be provided in enough abundance for all of us to download at our hearts content and this sort of issue would never exist. That time hasn't arrived just yet - but fortunately we're very close! Until then, conserve and respect the limits so we can all enjoy what we have equally. I think I've repeated myself enough now, so my job here is done. I'm sorry if the truth hurts, but sometimes it's necessary for a bit of a reality-check. I try do what's right and conserve my bandwidth, but it ticks me off if I see others doing everything in their power to find a way around the very limits I go out of my way to respect (its far easier to keep ignorantly downloading them terrabytes a month, than to set the correct example), and I won't just let that happen without first expressing my disapproval as I have. I can tolerate the problem to an extent, because really it isn't the end of the world, but when the person causing the problem forgets that they're causing it, or selfishly refuses to acknowledge it (not to mention silences and ridicules me for pointing it out), then any rationality that exists within me cries out for me to rise against the stupidity of my brethren and cause me to sacrifice my valuable time to bring whatever sanity I can contribute =)
But now, I'm a "selfish, catalystic parasite."
Please try understand the cause I'm trying to fight for here. I made it very clear that I was not targeting anyone for a flame-war. We're discussing something very relevant and important, and the selfish, catalystic parasite is ANYBODY who acts in accordance to what I described. That's not an opinion, it's a fact, as I said. If you take everything and leave nothing for your fellow man, that's called greed - by definition, and it's the exact same thing in my world as it is in yours.

Suddenly you're a good guy because you show how you've used a reasonable amount of bandwidth this month, as if you're doing something honourable (which of course it is, considering our constraints thanks to Telkom), and make out as if I falsely accused you - meanwhile, at first you told me to bugger off because you claimed you could use how much bandwidth you like, and that I should not impose regardless of how much sense I speak, because you're paying for an uncapped service? At first it didn't matter how much you used, at all. So what's the deal with this double-standard here?... I smell an oxymoron of brainfunction! =)
 
Last edited:
I can make quality "back-ups" of iPlayer downloads with the free Windows Media Encoder. I also tried with the open source CamStudio but not get decent quality.

Hey man thanks for the site suggestion :) I'm currently using UKiVPN to watch iPlayer but i'm willing to give these guys a shot so i've requested a test account.

What would the benefit of this be (apart from ease of use) rather than just buying a much cheaper VPS somewhere and setting up your own SSH tunnel? With probably a faster port of bandwidth. (100mbit vs 4mbit of this service)
 
Hey man thanks for the site suggestion :) I'm currently using UKiVPN to watch iPlayer but i'm willing to give these guys a shot so i've requested a test account.

What would the benefit of this be (apart from ease of use) rather than just buying a much cheaper VPS somewhere and setting up your own SSH tunnel? With probably a faster port of bandwidth. (100mbit vs 4mbit of this service)

Well, it negates the need to set up software or store files on a remote site. It can be used by almost any piece of internet software. Having 100mbit to/from the VPS doesn't mean too much if you can still only download at 4MB/s. The choice of 32 servers (which can be changed on the fly) around the world means you can choose to be British, German, Swedish, American, Canadian, etc any time you wish. Of course, there are definite benefits to having a VPS which this can't replace. But it is a useful backup system, and opens some interesting doors and content for South Africans.
 
Well, it negates the need to set up software or store files on a remote site. It can be used by almost any piece of internet software. Having 100mbit to/from the VPS doesn't mean too much if you can still only download at 4MB/s. The choice of 32 servers (which can be changed on the fly) around the world means you can choose to be British, German, Swedish, American, Canadian, etc any time you wish. Of course, there are definite benefits to having a VPS which this can't replace. But it is a useful backup system, and opens some interesting doors and content for South Africans.

The ability to make use of 32 different country IP's is cool :)

Done any speedtest.net tests? Would you mind posting/PMing a UK speed test (the recommended server) while connected to the UK IP please?

Thanks
 
Speedtest:



Not hugely inspiring, I guess, but Speednet only opens a single stream out of 200 available through the proxy. iPlayer downloads are multi-threaded, so much faster.
 
Last edited:
Thx for the speed test.

Hmm The main thing is that you don't get buffering every 30sec or so while trying to watch a show. Do you?

Most of the time I don't, however it can be irritating at times when it does.. Not sure if it's VPN related, but most pobably MWEB related with all the crap they've been having lately.

I get about 3.4mbps with my UK VPN to the recommended Manchester server, but as you say It's probably not representitive of it's true capabilities.
 
Hmm The main thing is that you don't get buffering every 30sec or so while trying to watch a show. Do you?

No, it has streamed very smoothly, not that I have watched a lot via the proxy yet. I was impressed with the download speed for later viewings.
 
just a heads up for everyone regarding this service -

early 2009 German authorities working with the MPA raided several servers in DE run by the company "resolution Gmb" 3 well known "piracy groups" who were operating/based in DE are being investigated including several financial fraud cases involving credit cards. Resolution GmbH "Your-freedom" has had to surrender all user logs under the Copyright Section VIII Article 59 clause.

what is worrying is that they keep server logs, so EVERYTHING you do is traceable. Laws regarding rented/leased servers in the EU have changed considerably in the last few months with many server-farms now required by law to keep logs on their users activity. Regardless of what server you use in the EU, everything is "logged" fortunately there are better options than your-freedom which will give you peace of mind regarding your privacy on the web
 
just a heads up for everyone regarding this service -

early 2009 German authorities working with the MPA raided several servers in DE run by the company "resolution Gmb" 3 well known "piracy groups" who were operating/based in DE are being investigated including several financial fraud cases involving credit cards. Resolution GmbH "Your-freedom" has had to surrender all user logs under the Copyright Section VIII Article 59 clause.

what is worrying is that they keep server logs, so EVERYTHING you do is traceable. Laws regarding rented/leased servers in the EU have changed considerably in the last few months with many server-farms now required by law to keep logs on their users activity. Regardless of what server you use in the EU, everything is "logged" fortunately there are better options than your-freedom which will give you peace of mind regarding your privacy on the web

Thanks for the heads up. Can you please provide a link to that story? There is nothing about it on their website. And I couldn't find anything like that via Google. From their AUP:

3. Privacy

We do our best to protect your privacy by not storing any more details on our servers than technically or legally required -- and permitted. In fact, the servers themselves do not keep any logs that could be of interest to anyone but the developers and operators; all logs containing user details are instead kept on a server in Germany. However we will cooperate with legal authorities to the extend required to protect us from having to take responsibility for your actions. This means that we may unveil your account and payment details as well as the source IP address used to connect to our servers if we are forced to do so.

We do not log what you access on the Internet; German telecommunications laws do not even permit this. We do log the fact that you have used our service, from where you have logged in to our service, and statistical data about your usage needed for accounting and quality assurance. This information is held on file for 6 months (as required by German law). We do not use this information in any other way except for statistical, debugging and accounting purposes, unless required by legal authorities.

Our servers are located in different countries around the world; the Your Freedom client will tell you on its status panel where the server you are currently using is located. Be aware that we may be required to cooperate with legal authorities of this country, Germany, or the country from which your connection to our service originates.
 
@fragtion_

People will do this kinda thing because they feel they are being shafted by MWEB. You pay for a service, shaped or not and it's reasonable to expect good service for your money. By advertising uncapped and then turn around and shape a 4M line down to dial up levels just because you do not have bandwidth available is just not on. What should happen is them set FUP of at least larger than 100GB for the shaped service and keep shaping moderate. Afrihost is doing it the right way, just a pity their accepted limits is way way way to little. If they triple that for starters I'll sign up tomorrow!!!!

MWEB's current policy is practically daring people to find alternate ways to get things to their PC at a reasonable rate. 4M line users are getting the short end of the stick right now. 384k users get 10k downloading a file, that's 60% of their BW taken away by shaping. 4M okes get the same speed which means they loose 97.5% of their line speed!! How can that be fair?!?!?!?!?
 
Your Freedom is awesome.
Used it at work to get past the corporate firewall and work blocking websites.
Even played WOW at work :D
 
for R100

i can setup my own vps + another node ;). only two, but have full control over one at least :D.

or my own torrent flux setup, or even pay torrent over http services that has 15 gig hdd space with unlimited up/down.

even purevpn has multiple points for only ±R47 p/m, all depends what you use it for and what you actually get...

...still your freedom noted.
 
Last edited:
From MWeb T&C:

12.2 You will not use the ADSL Service, directly or indirectly, in a way that:
...
12.2.4 interferes with any third party’s use of the ADSL Service;
...
12.2.8 in MWEB’s sole discretion constitutes abuse of the ADSL Service or of MWEB’s systems.
...
12.5 You may not restrict, inhibit or interfere with the ability of any person to access, use or enjoy the Internet or the ADSL Services, or create an unusually large burden on our network or otherwise generating levels of traffic sufficient to impede others' ability to send or retrieve information, or use the ADSL Services in an abusive manner.
...
12.6 We reserve the right to establish policies, rules and limitations, from time to time, concerning the use of the ADSL Service. You must comply with any bandwidth, data storage and other limitations we may impose, in our sole discretion. Failure to comply with these rules will result in your service being restricted, suspended or terminated, in our sole discretion.
...
12.12 If the ADSL Service is used in a way that we, in our sole discretion, believe violates this Acceptable Use Policy or any of our rules or limitations, we may take any responsive actions we deem appropriate. Such actions may include without limitation, temporary or permanent removal of content, cancellation of newsgroup posts, filtering of Internet transmissions, and/or the immediate limitation, restriction, suspension or termination of all or any portion of the ADSL Services or your account.
 
Last edited:
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X