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| Thread ID: 61237 | 2005-08-29 08:56:00 | Orcon Bitstream and Slingshot Jetbuster | somebody (208) | Press F1 |
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| 384515 | 2005-08-29 10:23:00 | Cheers everyone. Bittorrent sounds like something I will probably get into a bit more, but am not using at the moment (have tried downloading the occasional Linux distro using it). What about Telecom/Xtra cancellation fees? I can't seem to find a single thing about them anywhere on their websites - I currently have Xtra's 3gb plan. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 384516 | 2005-08-29 10:25:00 | of course they wouldnt, cos they might be big, im not sure how much they are though. | Prescott (11) | ||
| 384517 | 2005-08-29 11:28:00 | Depends on whether you signed up for a year with Telecom Jetstream. I know that they will sting you with disconnection fees if you signed up for a year but want to cancel before that year is up. Especially if you joined up when they were doing the free adsl modem promotion!! I have thought abouth changing plans as well, am curretnly on the top 10GB plan with Xtra but wouldn't mind downgrading my speed from 2Mbs to 256k plan as long as I had unlimited data. I have gone over the 10GB and been throttled backa couple of times (once with two weeks still to go - that hurt!) |
Tukapa (62) | ||
| 384518 | 2005-08-29 13:01:00 | For BT, do your research as well... For XP SP2, they resrict the max number of connections to 10... To prevent your computer being open for DOS atacks, etc. There is a patch, that can solve this, go search for it, maybe it helps! |
jesseycy (1046) | ||
| 384519 | 2005-08-29 13:44:00 | I swear bittorrent is going to kill the internet . Through slow suffication . Just you watch . Most ISP's will portshape anything through BT ports so you won't be able to beat their port shaping unless you hax0r their comput0rs . I'm happy enough with my xtra 256k plan . Look at this ( . orcon . net . nz/help/status/bitstream/" target="_blank">www . orcon . net . nz) and see the pie graph . filesharing easily takes up half the internet pie as it were . - David |
DangerousDave (697) | ||
| 384520 | 2005-08-29 14:15:00 | Forward port 6889 iHug let me download nice and fast here?! Seeding certain distros, I can leave it uploading at 15KB/s for days on end with no issues. Some torrents even force you to use a non-standard set of ports so there's less chance they're throttled |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 384521 | 2005-08-29 19:10:00 | I haven't the faintest idea what "port forwarding" is. Should I take the trouble to find out? In my opinion firewalls aren't worth the trouble they cause. Over the past nine months I have spent hours and hours trying to get broadband to work properly and have found that 99% of my trouble is caused by them. In fact I am inclined to think that computer security is very much over-hyped. People seem to forget that today most ISP's scan everything for spam and virus's. And as far as I am concerned they do an excellant job. Since last Xmas, when I signed up with IHug I have not seen a virus.NAV 2005 has not found a single item to block. I have not had a single piece of spam in my Ihug in box. I have received three pieces of spam in gmail. And gmail reports it has blocked 61 items. Spybot has not found ,even 1, item.. AdAware finds up to 20 "tracking cookies" a day. I strongly suspect they are the same ones every day and they are harmless anyway. My biggest complaint about broadband is with the lack ok knowledge shown by the so called help desk staff. Ihug staff in NZ seem to all have the same routine. They go through the basics and when they can'f find your fault, they all come up with the same answer. "We do not support your modem"!!! I recently had all sorts of problems with being unable to connect and with dropped connections. The could do nothing to help. As a last resort, (after a reformat and another new modem) I tried IHugs Australian help desk. Fixed within five minutes. In Cmos settings I had "Allow MAC viewing" enabled. The default. Disenabled it and problems all gone. I still don't know whay MAC viewing is, and I don't want to know. All I know is that it is disenabled and everything works!!!! And slow download speeds are usualy nothing to do with your ISP. The are usualy faults with the server you are downloading from. So :D :D :D |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 384522 | 2005-08-29 20:57:00 | unless you hax0r their comput0rs. I know what that "word" is supposed to say but can someone explain how they came up with that spelling for it? It makes no sense. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 384523 | 2005-08-29 21:42:00 | I know what that "word" is supposed to say but can someone explain how they came up with that spelling for it? It makes no sense. Its called leet (1337) speek. It was used in the computer geek sub-culture in the days of old, then it was adopted by wannabe hackers (script kiddies) that really don't know much about computers. Since then it has only been used by idiots, people ridiculing those idiots or as an expression of distaste when you don't think whatever you are describing is worthy of the term "hacking" |
Greven (91) | ||
| 384524 | 2005-08-29 21:48:00 | Since somebody is asking about Orcon, I will ask this question here as well Has orcon fixed there latency issues yet? I play the ocassional game of CS on orcon bitstreram. the ping usually starts out at about 250 when you first join a server, but it slowly drops until it reaches around 98 (usually takes about 3 mins) then stays pretty constant. bitstream really sucks for streaming video though - I tried to watch a streaming video of one of the INXS rockstar performances through the xtra site & the speed was fluctuating like mad. |
Greven (91) | ||
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