Posts made by MrMazda

If they were putting things that were outright illegal in their TOS, they'd of been shut down by the US government, or otherwise fined HEAVILY a long ass time ago… That being said though, I don't doubt for so much as one second that they'll do as shady of things as they can legally get away with.

For example, did you know that if you allow Facebook or Messenger to access your camera and/or microphone, that Facebook can spy on you without your knowledge at any time? Don't believe me? Read their TOS. I turned off the permissions to access my location the day that Facebook tried to make it MANDATORY to post your location with all of your posts. It seems that with every update that they roll out, they're doing shadier and shadier shit. I've contemplated getting rid of my Facebook account because of it for some time now.

I don't think you get points when someone else replies, unless they've changed things recently…

As for the spam posts, the points are awarded right away, however if our forum admin deems that the post was a spam post or was solely for the purpose of acquiring SBP, they can deduct the SBP for the post.

Sorry… I got a little side tracked with a couple of legal issues... I'll bring it up now.

Haha… I forgot to mention... I live in the trailer in the bush in the back 40 of my friend's property. He lives in the house. The output feed from the MLPPP router feeds to the opposite corner of the basement, where all the extremities of the network in the house wire together, as well as a line that runs across the basement ceiling, out the wall to the outside, into the ground, then across the back yard UNDERGROUND for the 200 foot stretch to my trailer, where it then reappears under the one back corner of the trailer to connect into the WAN port of the wireless router inside the trailer. This way I can have good WiFi coverage both in the trailer AND in the house hehe

To give you an idea of what I've done, we have the following:

"Grand Central Station" (where all the DSL lines come in and bond together, and where the dial tone on the two VoIP lines that even run to the trailer begin)

"LAN Central" (where the DSL lines come in as a single line, and split to the rest of the house… Also where I've mounted a keystone box to drop the 1000mbit LAN link down to 100mbit instead to also run the two VoIP lines through the same line for now until I bury a second cable)

In the event of a power outage, all of that can be powered as follows (and yes, these pics were taken during a power outage because my ISP couldn't understand how I was the ONLY customer in sync in the area… I have since added the ground adapter, mounted things to the wall, and changed out the inverter so I could use the bigger one for my trailer, but you'll get the idea):

Lastly, we have the trailer itself… The only difference between the two keystone boxes (in the house and in the trailer) is the one in the house does NOT have the two blue ports....

Simply put, the orange network jack on each end has all FOUR pairs of jumpers connected to it, so as to be dedicated as the "underground" jack. The white network jack only has the green and orange pairs connected. On the house side, this drops the network down to 100mbit (instead of the 1000 that comes off the switch), then connects the blue and brown pairs each to their own phone jack to connect the VoIP lines into the cable... In the trailer, those ports are wired EXACTLY the same, which splits up the underground cable from a single cable down into its respective three ports. The two blue ports in the trailer are merely an extension of the two unused ports on the back of the wireless router, as to make the 1000mbit LAN links into the router inside the trailer easier to access. This keeps everything tucked against the wall nicely, thus keeping the wiring out of the way. If I want to hop back to full 1000mbit service, I can simply move the underground line on each end, but I lose the two VoIP lines in the trailer.

Now here's the real kicker… Despite all the different off shoots and such throughout the house, and the link out the trailer, the ONLY NAT that is used AT ALL lies within the MLPPP router. So... Need help with port forwarding? I can support MUCH more advanced port forwarding setups hehe

I cannot comment on the reason why PayPal was removed. At this time, we are only able to accept BitCoin for donations.

Just so you know, BitCoin is actually a more anonymous method of payment. I think it may be worth your while to look into it.

At this day and age, the only way to really be able to remain secure and anonymous online is to use a VPN service. This is about the only thing these days that will guarantee you that added layer of protection.

Yes… It  can be if you so desire... To me though it's a little redundant as Linux itself can manage just the same...

The ONLY thing that I've found that Ubuntu simply CANNOT do is MLPPP using more than 2 DSL lines. I used to use my Ubuntu server as the central be all and end all for the network, including running the MLPPP to make the internet work. Once I installed a THIRD line however, I began having a great deal of difficulty with getting it going on all 3 lines at the same time. So... I made the switch over to a Mikrotik router. The Mikrotik router now bonds what is currently THREE lines, but as of next week will be FOUR lines together, then shares them out as a single line across the basement to the central switch that everything connects through.

If you're not using MLPPP on more than two DSL lines though, I've found that Linux by itself seems to have everything it needs. It's just a matter of knowing how to set it all up.

It can be compromised if not properly configured, however if you configure your firewall and any server services you may be using properly, I actually recommend using it as a main firewall. If doing MLPPP though, it won't handle more than two DSL lines at the same time without choking horribly I've discovered.

Hehe… Similar in design, but slightly different in terms of the topology used to create the network.

I'm about the only person that I know that still supports such an ancient technology from last century (1990's to be exact) such as MLPPP. Originally, it was used in the VERY late 80's, but more-so into the 90's as a means of bonding multiple DIAL-UP modems together to get a faster speed. In my case, I made a few configuration tweaks to turn MLPPP into MLPPPoE  :funny2:

The key difference is that instead of bonding multiple dial-up modems together, I'm bonding multiple ADSL2 lines together. Sadly, I'm just over 5 KM from the SLAM, and sadly, the ENTIRE circuit is oldschool coagulated COPPER... We're not even lucky enough to have FTTN out here (although TFFC, FTTB, or FTTH/FTTP would be preferred), so in theory, I should only be able to qualify for a 1.5 meg profile... A little pimping out of my services and swapping out the shitty ass CAT3 from the NID at the side of the house to the POTS splitters inside the house with CAT5e, as well as upgrading the lines from the shitty ass telephone cables to a custom made CAT5e jumper all the way to the modem (among a few other changes that I made), and by some miracle of physics, I managed to get all 3 lines stable at a 4032/800 (4 meg) profile. What sucks though is that on the most part, lines 1 & 3 can handle a 5056/800 profile... Sadly though, line 2 for some reason will only handle 4032/800 if I want it to stay stable, which sucks because when you're talking 3 - 4 lines, a 1 meg drop on even ONE line will mean an overall reduction of speed by 3 - 4 meg (1 per line more or less).

Sadly, on 3 DSL lines, I'm still only cranking out 9.75 - 10.5 meg down, and a mere 1.8 - 2.25 meg up. Admittedly, the installation of line #4 this month is more for the upload speed than the download speed. From there, I had to get creative with the wiring to make sure that I would have decent, solid, and reliable WiFi both in the house and the trailer.... So yeah... Advanced networking has kinda become my forté.

I also took the wiring for power and such to a whole new level, using a brand new car battery from a 2003 Nissan Pathfinder that my roomie's brother had kicking around, a car battery charger that I had kicking around in the basement, and a 150W inverter to convert the 12VDC to 120VAC, along with a custom ground adapter that first plugs into the inverter. It's a simple adapter really. It's just a short little about 6" long piece of 14 gauge wire with a male plug on one end, and a female plug on the other. On the female end of the adapter, I have an additional ground wire that connects to the ground pin, which runs over to the same clamp that clamps the ground wiring for the hydro (electrical) panel to connect to the water pipes (because we're on a well, so no copper piping actually runs underground, thus the water lines need to be grounded somehow). This way, I have the same 120VAC connection with a proper ground terminal, all running off of a 12V car battery.

The concept is simple... When the hydro (electricity) is on and running, the car battery charger kicks in and both charges the battery AND runs the electrical load off of the inverter at the same time. When the hydro goes out, just like shutting your car off, physics kick in and the inverter begins to draw off of the battery seamlessly, instead of the charger. This way, the hydro has to go out for at LEAST 51 hours before I lose my precious internet. Inside the house, all the main network guts connect into the inverter, which consists of the FOUR DSL modems, the main Mikrotik router, the VoIP adapter, the main switch that links all the guts together, as well as the WiFi router inside the house. So literally in a power outage, the ONLY thing that keeps working inside the house as it is now is my precious WiFi and VoIP lines (which actually also run out to the trailer). Out at the trailer, I have a secret weapon... A 2003 Nissan Sentra, a pair of jumper cables to run the battery terminals into the inside of the car and keep the hood closed (for rain/show protection), a 750W inverter (which is powerful enough to run my ENTIRE trailer, except the electric heat, thanks to the magic of LED lighting), and a bigass extension cord to run from inside the car to the back of the trailer. Before powering the inverter on to be able to power the trailer, simply start the engine, and instantly, the alternator on the engine quite literally acts as a generator to maintain the charge in the battery, and run the electrical system inside the trailer for up to 48 hours on a single tank of gas.

The next planned upgrade is going to be to run a second CAT5e cable to the trailer to run the VoIP lines only. That way, I can use the two spare pairs of wire in the existing CAT5e cable to run PoE instead of VoIP lines, which will allow me to upgrade the wireless router inside the trailer to one that can be powered by PoE. This way, my precious porn downloading will not be interrupted in the trailer in the event of a power outage, because although it may take me a few minutes to hook up the trailer, the wireless router that the laptop plugs into inside the trailer will be powered by PoE, and because of the nature of a laptop having a built in battery backup, not even my precious porn downloads will not get interrupted by a power outage.

I like to call my network style here "HARDCORE"  :funny2: :funny2: :funny2:

You would almost seem to think that I run a home based IT business and got fed up with the frequent power outages (the inevitable result of living in the middle of nowhere squared) that were causing me a great deal of difficulty doing things like updating websites for a customer, or otherwise conducting my business online. As for the heat in the trailer, in the event of an extended power outage, that's what I have a propane stove and a fan for in the event that I need heat when there's no power. I have a little over 51 hours of emergency reserve power, and if I need more, I can just connect a second car battery in a parallel to the existing one and more than double the allotted time that I have. That being said though, the longest the power has EVER gone out here (with ONE exception) has been 33.5 hours. The only time it EVER went out longer than that was back in 2003. I was out for almost 3 DAYS as the result of the largest blackout in history...

Do I get the award for the most hardcore home networks setup? It's designed to more or less NEVER go down, even when the power goes out for an extended period of time.

If the fix that I applied worked, without the need to change anything on your end, then I suspect that there was a system glitch that I cleared when I did the account reset.

I have promoted the torrent, put a freeleech on it, and requested a reseed. This should help with reviving the torrent to make it available.

Try now… If you still get the same error, then you need to check to make sure you downloaded ALL the files in ALL the torrents, otherwise the system will only register that you are LEECHING the torrent, rather than SEEDING the torrent.

Ask and ye shall receive.

Hehe… My network is WAY more complex now than the standard setup. I have SEVERAL IP subnets across my main network.

On the public facing side, I have the static /32 address for the main connection within the router, then I also have a static /28 and a static /30 subnet, which are public.

From there, I have THREE (soon to be FOUR) DSL lines (all with separate modems) that come together into a single router that bonds them together using MLPPP. That's the ONLY way I can get a fast enough speed out here to be able to stream movies in 1080p HD. THAT in and of itself was rather complex to arrange.

192.168.1.0/24 (Modem 1 - Port 1)
192.168.2.0/24 (Modem 2 - Port 2)
192.168.3.0/24 (Modem 3 - Port 3)
192.168.4.0/24 (Modem 4 - Port 4)
192.168.0.0/24 (Main LAN - Port 5)

Anything that is plugged directly into the main switch will get an IP address on the main 192.168.0.0/24 subnet, and also, anything plugged into any of the modems will automatically obtain an IP address on the respective subnet for that modem.

From there, I also have 192.168.5.0/24, which is reserved for anything connected to the main wireless router inside the house. In order to get there, it must hop through 192.168.0.252 to get to the desired destination IP address. There is then also a line that runs from the main switch, out the outside wall of the house, into the ground, and across the back yard some 200 feet to the trailer, where the line then reappears out of the ground behind the trailer, and connects up inside of the trailer. Anything attached to the router inside the trailer will be assigned 192.168.100.0/24, and will hop through 192.168.0.251 to get to the destination IP on the trailer's subnet.

So... As you can imagine, the concept of port forwarding is nothing new or foreign to me, and in my case, is a LOT more complicated. My laptop for example will come up as a different IP address on the /28 subnet than anything else connected inside of the trailer. There's also a 1:1 NAT translation for a few devices, in order to have those devices directly exposed to the internet (such as the VoIP box, and the server), while keeping the rest of the devices on the network masked behind one of a couple of public facing IP addresses on the network.

It gets rather complicated, but in the end, as long as everything works properly, where's the problem? hehe

So... If anyone should need further assistance, I support a LOT more advanced networking than just your standard home network. Every last stitch of hardware and wiring for my network (including the DSL lines themselves where they come off the NID into the house) was completely custom constructed, programmed, and installed my be. Every single network cable in my arsenal across the entire network was 100% custom created by ME to be the EXACT length it needs to be, without ANY excess cable to be found anywhere. Also, if it's of any value, I'm probably one of the only people you'll ever be able to find who can help support and troubleshoot issues with MLPPP.... It's a dying technology from back in the early 90's, but in cases like mine, it's a very valuable tool because it allows me to bond my THREE, soon to be FOUR DSL lines together to be able to enjoy their combined speed as a single line, so that I can actually get a fast enough speed to be able to do things like stream in 1080p HD, as a single DSL line that only gets about 3.5 mbit down in throughput, simply will NOT cut it.

Tis the down side of being in the middle of nowhere, where the only internet option is oldschool pre-Y2K legacy COPPER based ADSL2 service. When you combine that with the fact that I am just over 5 KMS from the SLAM, in theory, I shouldn't be able to get the 4 meg profiles that I'm getting, and I should only be able to get a 1.5 meg profile per line. Sadly, with copper based DSL, distance is NOT your friend. This is a large part of why I am sharing the connection with my nearest neighbour (and really, my ONLY neighbour), along with the power line that has been run underground to connect my trailer into their main breaker panel to get power. It was a royal pain in the ass to have to dig not one, but TWO different 200 foot long trenches between the house and the trailer in order to be able to bury both the underground network and underground power hookups, without running them on top of each other, which would degrade the quality of the network line that runs to the trailer, but it was TOTALLY worth it. Before when the connection was all wireless out to the trailer, it was a NIGHTMARE any time we got too hot and humid, too wet, or too windy weather conditions, as it would just screw with the wireless between the house and the trailer. Now, I'm quite glad that the only parts of my network that are wireless are either from the main wireless router inside the house to a wireless device inside the house, or it will become wireless once it's already on the inside side of the walls of the trailer to a wireless device (usually just my phone) inside the trailer. The result is that I have reliable WiFi in ANY kind of weather conditions.

The stats that are shown there in your profile are the session totals. In other words, it's the total amount of data transferred since the torrent was started. If you restart the torrent, or in some cases, if you seed from multiple locations, every time you get an update from the other IP address, or every time you stop then restart a torrent, it will refresh the stats. With that being said however, it will still accumulate the transferred amounts to your grand total.

SO… If you're seeding and say only ONE of your locations where you're seeding has transferred anything, when your seedbox updates, it will push those stats to the profile page there, however as soon as your next location updates, the site will see it as a different IP address, and thus as a different session, and will replace the total on the profile page with the reported total from your other location. Once your seedbox refreshes with the tracker again, the stats will be pushed to the grand totals, and the display amount in your profile will change, but once you get another refresh from the location that's not transferring to anything, it will consider it (at least for display purposes) to be yet another new session, and will reset the totals on the profile again, without affecting your grand total.

So... Yes... Traffic IS being accumulated against your grand totals, even though the site does not display the same amount in your profile as it shows in your torrent client. If you were to reduce the seed locations to just ONE location and keep it active, you would notice the stats would begin to build and accumulate there in your profile. So... Even though they do not appear to be accumulating in your profile listings, they ARE accumulating against your grand totals, which is what your overall ratio is calculated on anyway.

I'm a BIG fan of Ubuntu, which is Debian based… Especially when you combine it with a useful little tool such as Webmin. It makes life WAY more straight forward

The best I can do for you was to put some of the torrents that you are seeding on freeleech. This should help to encourage users to download these files, which in turn, should help you see some upload traffic to help restore your ratio.

I can definitely bring it up and see where things go…

I have 4 of them in total, all in different geographical areas, but that's because I also host the DNS services for several different domains online. If I were just using them for regular internet traffic, I would only need one really. Simply put, take a Linux box and install a basic copy of Bind onto it…. It is also recommended to setup RNDC, as this will help with a few things down the line.

From there, just be sure to update the root zone from time to time, then configure your computer or network's DNS settings to point to that Linux box. The Linux box will actually do all the DNS resolving for you, pulling the information straight out of the Master DNS servers, which bypasses the need for a 3rd party DNS service, which can potentially lead to DNS inquiry information being leaked.

@Topsersem:

All things considered, I guess NFO files here are frivolous. This is not a "scene" hub.  ::)

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