Was thinking of subscribing to a 30 GB monthly newsgroup for 8 bucks until I read your post. Thanks for the info! I'll be using that tunneling method instead.
Down with TMNet!

I'm curious though. How does this SSH bypass the throttling? Enlighten me

Ah, I see.
Simple explanation.
Time to fire up ol' uTorrent again after I sign up.

Signed up when I got home.
Welcome to awesome.

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I think I have wasted 8 bucks.

Secure Tunnel is quite honestly, crap. Their server went down overnight and their client frequently hardcrashes my PC. Feedback on their forums isn't too favourable either.
Oh well, you learn.

My friend recommended Relakks though.
https://www.relakks.com/?cid=gb
He used it before and it uses a true VP, unlike Secure Tunnel.
Cheaper too.
I think I'll try that next month. Not too keen on spending another 8 bucks. Will endure ST in the meantime.

No BW limit for Relakks.

Give us some feedback once you try it out

A review on Relaxx +3 more SSH thingos:
http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.77416 (lol swedish)
http://www.systranbox.com/systran/box (use to understand it )

It got the best scores of of the 4, though. 8/10.
Also reported that you suffer approximately a 30% BW loss when using it.
But I guess that's the price you pay for anonymity.

Well, i cancelled my ST account after less than a day.
Since I didn't pay anything, guess I'll try out Relakks.

Signed up for 30 days at Relakks. Getting full speed on torrents.
Simple to use as well.
A++++

Regarding all the previous questions on Relakks:

I paid 6 Euros for 30 days (dunno how much RM, less than RM30 I suppose)
Way hassle-free than ST, since it encrypts your ENTIRE connection. No need to muck around with proxies and shit.

To activate, just download the exe provided on the website, run it. That simple.

It does disconnect every now and then (It's really popular), though.

Thank god I decided to pull out from ST. Bad history, crappy speeds. Luckily they didn't charge me for one month.

Current speed on BT below.
So anyway, this is my current paying recommendation if you want to stick it to the man.


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I'm not too sure on the disconnection rate, as I just signed up.
And I suppose you can set reconnections in the options.

And yes, the speed is constant. My torrents got so fast they lagged down everything and I think contributed to Relakks's previous disconnection O_o

If L2TP/IPSec is slow/not working, try the PPTP mentioned above, it works.
Bypasses the shaping as well.
As of now, L2TP is slow. So using PPTP and getting full speed again.

VPN/SSH/eMule Protocol Obsfucation are your only choices. Read from a few pages back to learn more.

btfan: Nope, uTorrent has green light. Running in the alternate PPTP method mentioned earlier in the thread. Torrents running at full speed for a few hours now.

Funky: I don't think so. Read the FAQ at their site to be sure though.

The PPTP i was referring to was for Relakks though, not uTorrent.

I also recommend Relakks over ST. ST seems... dodgy.

This post has been edited by Zephro: Oct 5 2006, 04:28 PM

Remember guys, if the main Relakks connection (downloaded executable) is giving you d/c problems, use PPTP instead as below.

https://www.relakks.com/faq/guides/connectionxp/pptpxp.php

Using that and I haven't been d/ced for 24 hours as of now.
Torrents still running at full speed

Hm, problems connecting to Relakks? Weird, I use the PPTP method and I stay connected all the time.
Try contacting their support?

I can't use Relakks normal login now (no data transmission whatsoever), only PPTP works for me.
Speeds still going ok on PPTP. 50kbs total.

Relakks PPTP works for me, but for some reason it kills my entire connection when it gets disconnected. Reconnecting Streamyx won't fix it, the only option is a reboot.
Mysterious.