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Living Room / Re: When Traffic Shaping Results in ISP Changing

« on: September 08, 2008, 06:01 PM »

Simplest way is to never register the domain name with a hosting company. Sure you might save a few bucks ...but you'll be married to them forever. e.g. Hosting companies tend to not be helpful when you leave them...

-Stoic Joker (September 08, 2008, 05:41 AM)

Stoic Joker

Thank you very much for this hint.
And would gandi.net be one of these "independent" registrars?
I am a little lost after perusing through the ICANN list of all accredited registrars.
Thanks ahain and best regards.
Rui

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Living Room / Re: When Traffic Shaping Results in ISP Changing

« on: September 05, 2008, 07:00 PM »

When registering your own domain, make sure YOU own the domain name, and not the company you register through.

-f0dder (September 05, 2008, 06:53 PM)

f0dder

Thanks for the hint.
But, noob question: How can you be sure of that?
Thanks and best regards
Rui

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Living Room / Re: When Traffic Shaping Results in ISP Changing

« on: September 05, 2008, 06:53 PM »

PM sent to jgpaiva, concerning ISPs in our country,, just not to hijack the thread.

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Living Room / Re: When Traffic Shaping Results in ISP Changing

« on: September 05, 2008, 06:37 PM »

To mouser and jgpaiva

Thank you very much for responding!

Concerning using  a WebMail alternative, I do not like Web Mail...

Concerning the traffic shaping problem, I already run Azureus using encryption. So, this does not solve the problem, as João says.

Googleing the matter of a proxy, I came across this:

http://www.raymond.c...ass-traffic-shaping/

What do you think? Anyway, I did not tried it yet.

And, concerning OUR ISP (mine and jgpaiva's), the answer they gave to him is, of course, hilarious.
By the way, I asked them IF they thought people like me bought a 24Mbs package just to surf rhe web and using e-mail.  I had a thundering silence as a response! Ah ah ah

Not that I am a huge downloader, but I get furious when my download speeds go to almost zero, because of the damned shaping.

Besides, our ISP position is hypocrit, to say the least... Although, I am not here to discuss morals.

Illegal protocol??? 


Best regards

Rui   



 

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« on: September 05, 2008, 05:43 PM »

Thanks to cranioscospical and jgpaiva for their welcome!

To João: It is a terrific site, indeed
(João, é um site do caraças!)
Have  a look at my other post concerning Netcabo, please

https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=14753.0

Best regards

Rui

Edited, as "cranioscopical" was misspelled

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Living Room / When Traffic Shaping Results in ISP Changing

« on: September 05, 2008, 05:35 PM »

Hello

I am sick of being traffic shaped by my ISP, with which I have signed a 24Mb package.

I don't know what is the situation in other countries, but where I live (Portugal), there are ISPs who just can't fulfill their marketing promises and campaigns.

My torrent traffic has been repeatedly shaped by my ISP. It even happens that they send me so much RST packets that there are times when my torrent client goes crazy and stops responding, crashing.

What is your experience concerning this issue?

I have had some phone contacts with my ISP Support Team, and they consistently deny they are practicing traffic shaping. This situation makes me angry with them. I KNOW they are doing this.

See http://www.azureuswi...hp/Bad_ISPs#Portugal

I don't pay them to be lying to me.

What do you do to combat ISP traffic shaping?

As a protest, I am changing to another ISP.

Unfortunately, I am afraid I will have to change my email at ALL THE SITES where I am registered, and I am afraid that there are a lot of them!...

Indeed, you should not be dependent on the email address provided by your current ISP, as you never know when will you you have to change!...

I am thinking of registering my own domain, and eventually have my own personal email address, not dependent on any ISP.

A couple more of questions:

Where do you advise me to register my own domain?
Concerning hosting, which hosting company do you recommend?

FYI, I am running an FTP Server to share files with friends, with the help of No-IP.

To gain complete control over my -email, should I consider running my own mail server?

As I am planning publishing a site dedicated to computer security (Windows), what hosting companies do you recommend, based on your own experience?

Thanks in advance for your time and patience!

Best regards.

Rui
   

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« on: September 05, 2008, 04:54 PM »

Hi everybody

Hi am Rui, and I was born in Lisbon, Portugal, 51 years ago.
jgpaiva was wondering if there was another DC member from his native country...
Well, there is, João, and its me!
Computers are my hobby, and I remember coming to DC through Wilders, of which I am also a member.
Greetings from Portugal!
Rui

P.S. This is my first post and the second is coming right away!....