Funny how I actually wrote about this previously too:
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Australian Isp's
In case you haven't established this yet, Optus and Telstra are monopolising the AUS internet market, you cant host servers on them, regardless of whether your downloading off their proxies, the traffic is included in your downloads. Only things they dont include in downloads are ARP packets, and thats only because they cant monitor stuff that low level. I bet even running this freenet node is a crime, even though only 3 gigs of downloads are permitted a month. It means that technically its legal for me to run this freenet node as a transient node, but not as a permanent node. Oh, and optus has free uploads, so ABUSE IT.. Upload as much to other servers as you can, its not included in your downloads.
One recommendation I suggest is to constantly hammer Optus and telstra with requests to at the very least, dont include traffic in the downloads that was downloaded off the ISP's proxies, or any traffic between two optus customers. Traffic like this costs Optus and Telstra NOTHING. Remember, it actually costs Optus and telstra alot to handle technical support.. if you request this stuff enough, it will be cheaper for them to just do it. Its too bad that the optus rules are so ambiguous that even sending a file over MSN could be considered a crime, and since optus doesn't host any game servers, which means they cant technically there shouldn't be any servers on optus, which means technically all gamers should have alot of lag. But they wont enforce that rule because the moment they do, they lose stacks of customers... SO WHY NOT JUST CHANGE THE RULE???
Hammer your councils for a free community Wireless network.. Cheap to set up, and beneficial for industry, businesses, and people alike, at barely any cost to the council.
Making your downloads more efficient
Since the people at the ISP's charge for traffic regardless of whether it costs them anything or not, the easiest way to do this is increase the disk cache on your browsers to much bigger then 60 megs.
The best way however, is to infact set up your own caching proxy (set up in transparant mode) and caching DNS server, especially if you have multiple computers on your network. If you have an old computer lying around, check out Mandrake MNF (mandrake Multi network firewall) www.mandrake.com.. Its easy to configure a proxy and caching DNS, and set up NAT (network address translation). Remember that you will probably need to hook up your cable modem ON A SEPERATE NETWORK CARD FROM YOUR ACTUAL NETWORK, using a crossover RJ45 cable, and when you change the network card your modem is on, you need to pull the cable of the modem out and put it back in. With a Caching proxy and caching DNS server, the 3kb/s cap after you exceed your downloads on Optus is less noticeable for browsing, and is only really visible when downloading files.
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hammer the councils to set up community wifi networks;)
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Funny how I actually wrote about this previously too: ---------------- Australian Isp's In case you haven't established this yet, Optus and Telstra are monopolising the AUS internet market, you cant host servers on them, regardless of whether your downloading off their proxies, the traffic is included in your downloads. Only things they dont include in downloads are ARP packets, and thats only because they cant monitor stuff that low level. I bet even running this freenet node is a crime, even though only 3 gigs of downloads are permitted a month. It means that technically its legal for me to run this freenet node as a transient node, but not as a permanent node. Oh, and optus has free uploads, so ABUSE IT .. Upload as much to other servers as you can, its not included in your downloads.
One recommendation I suggest is to constantly hammer Optus and telstra with requests to at the very least, dont include traffic in the downloads that was downloaded off the ISP's proxies, or any traffic between two optus customers. Traffic like this costs Optus and Telstra NOTHING. Remember, it actually costs Optus and telstra alot to handle technical support.. if you request this stuff enough, it will be cheaper for them to just do it. Its too bad that the optus rules are so ambiguous that even sending a file over MSN could be considered a crime, and since optus doesn't host any game servers, which means they cant technically there shouldn't be any servers on optus, which means technically all gamers should have alot of lag. But they wont enforce that rule because the moment they do, they lose stacks of customers... SO WHY NOT JUST CHANGE THE RULE???
Hammer your councils for a free community Wireless network.. Cheap to set up, and beneficial for industry, businesses, and people alike, at barely any cost to the council.
Making your downloads more efficient
Since the people at the ISP's charge for traffic regardless of whether it costs them anything or not, the easiest way to do this is increase the disk cache on your browsers to much bigger then 60 megs.
The best way however, is to infact set up your own caching proxy (set up in transparant mode) and caching DNS server, especially if you have multiple computers on your network. If you have an old computer lying around, check out Mandrake MNF (mandrake Multi network firewall) www.mandrake.com.. Its easy to configure a proxy and caching DNS, and set up NAT (network address translation). Remember that you will probably need to hook up your cable modem ON A SEPERATE NETWORK CARD FROM YOUR ACTUAL NETWORK, using a crossover RJ45 cable, and when you change the network card your modem is on, you need to pull the cable of the modem out and put it back in. With a Caching proxy and caching DNS server, the 3kb/s cap after you exceed your downloads on Optus is less noticeable for browsing, and is only really visible when downloading files.
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hammer the councils to set up community wifi networks ;)