Hey guys, I need some input, whats the speed of Relakks + 1MBps vs. Relakks + 512kbps streamyx?

If I'm gonna be paying 5 EUR more a month then I've got to cut costs somewhere and it might as well be streamyx.

The governemnt souldn't be interested in banning connections to sweedish IP addresses, TMnet might ban the connection to Relakks's VPN server.

Or even worse ban VPN traffic on Home streamyx accounts, though this would piss off a lot of companies like mine who use home streamyx accounts for biz and VPN use.

Why I'm interested in Relakks btw. is because its owned by the Swedish Pirate Party, lol check out the entry here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relakks
And cause its a darknet, so even if its servers are seized like piratebay, they probably don't have anything in the logs that is trackable.

But really, if 512kb + Relakks = 50+kB/s then its not worth it cause I can get 50kB/s by queueing up 10+ torrents on my current line, then add in limewire downloads which pushes my total bandwidth near the 80kB+ range. Of course the problem here is when my queue is low, that when the shaping affects me most. So now I have to consider if I should keep my 1mb streamyx line and then add a VPN soultion on top of that!

$$$, at this rate I might as well go back to visitng my local VCD ah beng, it might just be cheaper.

This post has been edited by Drake: Oct 17 2006, 04:57 PM

I had this problem when connecting direct to TMnet, I was getting 20-40kb then it would get disconnected, so I signed up for Relakks. Now it shoots to 100kb+ but never drops below 20-30kb, its an improvement but I dunno where the bottleneck is, maybe foreign peers/seeds being capped by their own ISPs near the end of the month.

I just finished a good 1-month paid trial with Relakks and I can say I'm 75% pleased with the service. I won't continue this month because I'm out of HDD space. But I will definately consider them in the future.

Pros:
- Decent download speeds. I managed 40GB in a month.
- Can get torrents with just a few seeds quickly
- No extra software needed.
- Supposed to be anonymous. They say they don't keep logs.

Cons:
- D/C pretty often. My longest connection uptime was 5 days.
- Service went down for half a day once for me.
- They don't support L2TP on Windows2000.....PPTP is fine though.