willay
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yeah bit torrent can slow your adsl down because its so intensive with default settings. When I grab my downloads off my seedbox its lovely and quick!
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ajscorsa
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gonna have to renew my subscription to giganews now 
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CorsAsh
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quote:
Originally posted by Ojc
... more laws like the anti-terrorism law which was pushed through in the wake of the London bombings only for it to be used in just about every situation the Government see fit.
Did you see a while ago, a local council used anti-terror laws to perform surveillance on a mother in order to make sure she hadn't lied about her child being in the catchment area of a certain school? 
In fact, here it is. Used it on fishermen too 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1952551/Anti-terror-law-used-to-snoop-on-fishermen.html
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Bart
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^^
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noshua
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quote:
Originally posted by ajscorsa
gonna have to renew my subscription to giganews now
http://www.news.astraweb.com/specials/kleverig-11.html
£7.51 / month.
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Chris
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If you are thinking of signing for giganews, give me a shout I can refer you.
As the servers are state side and use SSL, be hard to track down.
I was downloading a torrent and spotted an ip range of my local uni, told a mate that works there.
Student got busted for p2p on the uni network.
Torrents you never know who is looking, try peer guardian, this block access to sites that are corps.
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Sunz
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I guess you could use VPN !?
Control panel > Network connections > set up a new connection and choose the VPN.
You have to pay for it and it will slow down your connection a bit, but it means it will be alot more secure.
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Rob_Quads
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quote:
Originally posted by noshua
quote:
Originally posted by ajscorsa
gonna have to renew my subscription to giganews now
http://www.news.astraweb.com/specials/kleverig-11.html
£7.51 / month.
I use easynews which has a great search engine and http interface too (although limited via http) does Astraweb have any of these facilities or is it just straight news groups so a newreader / nzbs to make things easier
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Ojc
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quote:
Originally posted by CorsAsh
quote:
Originally posted by Ojc
... more laws like the anti-terrorism law which was pushed through in the wake of the London bombings only for it to be used in just about every situation the Government see fit.
Did you see a while ago, a local council used anti-terror laws to perform surveillance on a mother in order to make sure she hadn't lied about her child being in the catchment area of a certain school?
In fact, here it is. Used it on fishermen too
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1952551/Anti-terror-law-used-to-snoop-on-fishermen.html
Reason alone to vote out Labour, they have got well out of control.
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Paul_J
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it's a joke...
http://bit.ly/cb7hDo
Read this... where the MP thinks an 'IP' address means 'intellectual property address'. 
we're all doomed.
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noshua
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quote:
Originally posted by Rob_Quads
quote:
Originally posted by noshua
quote:
Originally posted by ajscorsa
gonna have to renew my subscription to giganews now
http://www.news.astraweb.com/specials/kleverig-11.html
£7.51 / month.
I use easynews which has a great search engine and http interface too (although limited via http) does Astraweb have any of these facilities or is it just straight news groups so a newreader / nzbs to make things easier
Straight up provider - sabnzbd along with http://nzbs.org/index.php and http://www.merlins-portal.net/Vbulletin/nzblist.php = 
Astraweb is just as good as Giganews yet cheaper. I can't see why anyone would use Giganews unless they don't care about throwing cash away. I can max out a 100mbit line with Astraweb.
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Edd
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use a private site with ssl anyway
catch me if you can
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willay
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quote:
Originally posted by Chris
If you are thinking of signing for giganews, give me a shout I can refer you.
As the servers are state side and use SSL, be hard to track down.
I was downloading a torrent and spotted an ip range of my local uni, told a mate that works there.
Student got busted for p2p on the uni network.
Torrents you never know who is looking, try peer guardian, this block access to sites that are corps.
Such a nice thing to do Chris
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noshua
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Forgot to quote that.
Yeah that's a shit thing to do - especially when you're doing the same as the student. He was making the most out of the connection - surely you would do the same in that situation?
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Chris
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Part of the JAnet agreement means that traffic must be used for acadmic research,
Couldnt coment on the possible download speeds of newsgroups via JAnet connections.
But im guessing it would be in the area of 5000kps or 12 mins for a DVD.
[Edited on 13-04-2010 by Chris]
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John
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That's a bit of a shit reason, it's more illegal to download films than it is to use p2p on the uni network.
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Hammer
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Wait, there are actual wankers that grass you in for filesharing on the internet?
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adiohead
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harsh
[Edited on 14-04-2010 by adiohead]
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Reedy
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If your ISP is based abroad then would they still have to follow the uk laws?
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willay
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quote:
Originally posted by Chris
Part of the JAnet agreement means that traffic must be used for acadmic research,
Couldnt coment on the possible download speeds of newsgroups via JAnet connections.
But im guessing it would be in the area of 5000kps or 12 mins for a DVD.
[Edited on 13-04-2010 by Chris]
Yeah I'm quite aware what janet is used for, but still, you can download stuff but you feel the need to report others?
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Bart
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Anyone worried about the above might want to take a look at: http://btguard.com/
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Steve
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this is exactly why the bill is ridiculous, within weeks theres a solution to get round it
they should just give up, they thought it would end with banning napster
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Eck
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quote:
Originally posted by willay
quote:
Originally posted by Chris
Part of the JAnet agreement means that traffic must be used for acadmic research,
Couldnt coment on the possible download speeds of newsgroups via JAnet connections.
But im guessing it would be in the area of 5000kps or 12 mins for a DVD.
[Edited on 13-04-2010 by Chris]
Yeah I'm quite aware what janet is used for, but still, you can download stuff but you feel the need to report others?
That's shocking You happen to be breaking the law but feel that you should also be vigilant toward others?
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