Fausto
Member
Hello all,
I think I have finally cracked the issue that we all have after being capped (especially on IS accounts with the 28/27G local caps). I always wanted to be able to have mild international browsing available after my initial international cap on my IS account was reached (I used to use OpenBrowse in the past but I thought for the R40 I used to spend I was getting minimal value as the total transfer volume both up and down through the OpenBrowse proxies was never more than say 30mb per month - quite expensive if you do the maths). So as a typical chartered accountant I decided to investigate better options. Mr Beep, just a little shout out here - Your service is excellent and I think that the concept you brought to the market is exceptional, you are forever coming up with innovative and industry leading ideas but you know how us bean counters can be!!!
After recently breaking my Ma(ca)rconi WiFi router, I purchased a DLink DSL-G604T wireless router. Sure there are pluses and minuses on this router, but the best thing about it is that it has a tiny linux OS that makes it tick (Monta Vista Linux). So I figured surely I could set it up to make 2 pppoe connections which after some time I managed to do from the command line (the web interface is horrible and does not allow you to create 2 concurrent pppoe sessions on the same virtual circuit). Anyways to cut a long story short I managed to get the router to connect to both my IS account (which has 27G local access after my initial cap of 3Gb is breached) and my prepaid Web Africa account concurrently.
So far so good... Then I figured that if I set up static routing for all the known South African hosts (878 so far) through the ppp interface of my IS Account (in my case ppp0) and then one other static route for all other traffic (international) through the ppp interface of my WebAfrica account (in my case ppp1) I would be able to route all my local traffic through my IS account and still enjoy international browsing to my hearts content (well at least while my prepaid WA account remained in credit Gb wise). I have tested this in the current month visiting http://www.hostip.info/ (international site which reports my IP address to be 165.146.XXX.XXX which is clearly a SAIX based account i.e. WebAfrica) and http://www.sadcmet.org/Discuss/discuss3.asp and http://www.capeinfo.com/RC/reply.asp (local sites which reports my IP address to be 196.209.XXX.XXX which is clearly an IS account i.e. Internet Solutions). I havent been capped on my IS account yet so a full blown test cannot be conducted yet, but the cap is fast approaching so solid feedback can be expected in the near future! I have no reason to believe this setup wont work given my IP addresses reported above, but I should wait until Im capped before doing my victory dance!
Effectively I have managed to have the router do all the hard work, dodged installing raspppoe (didnt want to do this as I like being behind the router and not using it as a bridge) and also now I dont have to go into my router config and change my account details whenever I want to do a little international browsing/downloading. Furthermore there are 3 users on my home network, 2 of which are total techno peasants and the thought of training them to change account details etc was not appealing!
I would be more than happy to post a how-to regarding my setup (remember this uses a fair amount of telnet scripting and has only been tested on a DLink router) but Im sure with a little tweaking any decent router should be configurable!
Regards
Fausto Di-Trapani
I think I have finally cracked the issue that we all have after being capped (especially on IS accounts with the 28/27G local caps). I always wanted to be able to have mild international browsing available after my initial international cap on my IS account was reached (I used to use OpenBrowse in the past but I thought for the R40 I used to spend I was getting minimal value as the total transfer volume both up and down through the OpenBrowse proxies was never more than say 30mb per month - quite expensive if you do the maths). So as a typical chartered accountant I decided to investigate better options. Mr Beep, just a little shout out here - Your service is excellent and I think that the concept you brought to the market is exceptional, you are forever coming up with innovative and industry leading ideas but you know how us bean counters can be!!!
After recently breaking my Ma(ca)rconi WiFi router, I purchased a DLink DSL-G604T wireless router. Sure there are pluses and minuses on this router, but the best thing about it is that it has a tiny linux OS that makes it tick (Monta Vista Linux). So I figured surely I could set it up to make 2 pppoe connections which after some time I managed to do from the command line (the web interface is horrible and does not allow you to create 2 concurrent pppoe sessions on the same virtual circuit). Anyways to cut a long story short I managed to get the router to connect to both my IS account (which has 27G local access after my initial cap of 3Gb is breached) and my prepaid Web Africa account concurrently.
So far so good... Then I figured that if I set up static routing for all the known South African hosts (878 so far) through the ppp interface of my IS Account (in my case ppp0) and then one other static route for all other traffic (international) through the ppp interface of my WebAfrica account (in my case ppp1) I would be able to route all my local traffic through my IS account and still enjoy international browsing to my hearts content (well at least while my prepaid WA account remained in credit Gb wise). I have tested this in the current month visiting http://www.hostip.info/ (international site which reports my IP address to be 165.146.XXX.XXX which is clearly a SAIX based account i.e. WebAfrica) and http://www.sadcmet.org/Discuss/discuss3.asp and http://www.capeinfo.com/RC/reply.asp (local sites which reports my IP address to be 196.209.XXX.XXX which is clearly an IS account i.e. Internet Solutions). I havent been capped on my IS account yet so a full blown test cannot be conducted yet, but the cap is fast approaching so solid feedback can be expected in the near future! I have no reason to believe this setup wont work given my IP addresses reported above, but I should wait until Im capped before doing my victory dance!
Effectively I have managed to have the router do all the hard work, dodged installing raspppoe (didnt want to do this as I like being behind the router and not using it as a bridge) and also now I dont have to go into my router config and change my account details whenever I want to do a little international browsing/downloading. Furthermore there are 3 users on my home network, 2 of which are total techno peasants and the thought of training them to change account details etc was not appealing!
I would be more than happy to post a how-to regarding my setup (remember this uses a fair amount of telnet scripting and has only been tested on a DLink router) but Im sure with a little tweaking any decent router should be configurable!
Regards
Fausto Di-Trapani
Kidding!)
