Comments on: Skype blocked by Qualitynet

By: BoBader

BoBader — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:56:02 +0000

Guys I have a secure solution. Use AnchoreFree Hotspot Shield. It is a secure VPN that protect you when you access the internet from a public WiFi. It can also be used to bypass Kuwait censorship ;)

It is free.

By: human

human — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 08:02:25 +0000

Limit, agree with you :)

Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 05:10:12 +0000

word to the wise. if you have slowness issues with witopia it may help to use their DNS servers and not your isp’s. I’ve used them for years all around the world but had some very bad slowness once and got this advice from their customer service dept. The link is http://www.wiki.witopia.net/FAQ (#6) I like them..their price for openVPN service is incredible and like the other poster mentioned..Pandora over VPN through my iPhone is a sweet sweet extra.

By: VirusX

VirusX — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:52:20 +0000

WTF!

Even proxy sites like hidemyass.com & anonymouse.org will be blocked soon!
There is some mobiles from Nokia itself working with a new technology called GAN (UMA) its like VoIP will be forbidden to enter our market!

By: Ms.Baker

Ms.Baker — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:30:07 +0000

Thanks Mark for this post and the info. Very very helpful.

By: Rayboy

Rayboy — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:40:20 +0000

:-)

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:36:14 +0000

ah ok, now i get what kind of proxy you’re talking about.

By: Rayboy

Rayboy — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:34:06 +0000

??? when i mean proxy … i dont mean sites like annoymouse etc.. i mean “settings which you do in the your internet setup”

About “whether i have written the code” … thats a whole different story.. i do not think you quite understood what i meant..

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:20:13 +0000

Well unless you’ve written the code for the proxy yourself I don’t see how you can trust that.

Witopia has been stable with me but I’ve only been using it for a day now but even if Witopia is not stable, Witopia is just one supplier of VPN, there are a million more.

Its not about VPN being stronger than proxies, its about the limitations of proxies.

Latency is a problem with proxies and VPN but keep in mind the extra time that involves you going to the proxy website and typing your url there. Yes typing because you can’t use all your saved bookmarks. With VPN once its on you don’t have to do anything else, it just works.

By: Rayboy

Rayboy — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:55:29 +0000

Witopia is great , cheap and quite secure… i use it myself.. but itsnt stable, many times i have to disconnect and reconnect about 4 to 8 times to get it working… Even though it says secure, you sure you can trust it?.

I understand vpn’s are more stronger than proxies ..

But keeping security in mind(about how many unknown connections to same link) and the latency involved.. i would work on the proxy…

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:35:27 +0000

yeah except using a proxy isn’t a better solution than vpn.
VPN is a lot more practical to use since once you turn it on you just browse and do everything as you would regularly do. Plus $40 a year is cheaper than 10KD a month and you get more out of it.

By: Rayboy

Rayboy — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:33:22 +0000

another way is you pay roughly 10 to 20 KD a month rent a dedicated server online , install your own proxy server and use that as a proxy …

if you can work as a group of friends .. you can work out your own thing really cheap.

By: M3T4L

M3T4L — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:59:01 +0000

Since you guys started the VPN talk, you can always establish a free VPN connection between yourself and someone you really know and can trust (brother ??), and who happens to live in the “free” world with a reliable 24/7 broadband.

Here’s the HOW-TO:
http://www.computernetworkinghelp.com/content/view/41/1/

Cheers;

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:13:29 +0000

Thank you Mark for the fast reply.
Witopia looks tempting but what about its usage? doing well with you or you faced any problems? and by the way do you know of any vpn that is compatible with windows mobile and symbian?
thank you again.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:54:50 +0000

http://www.witopia.net/

It was only $40 a year
Has SSL for when browsing from my computer
Has PPTP for when browsing from my iphone

There are other options also:
https://www.secureix.com/personal.shtml http://strongvpn.com/ <$115 a year

The latency so far with Witopia is twice as long but since I am not using it for video games it hasn’t effected me that much.

Hulu, Pandora and NBColympics now work on my computer because the VPN is US based.

Skype, Playboy and whatever other site that is blocked by Qualitynet now work fine.