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ok TV shows BTW I haven't had a working TV in 2 years now mostly Hulu or downlaods if i can't find what i'm looking for. Mythbusters Duel Survival (another one of those survival shows but it pairs a hippie and a former spec ops guy 'funny as hell') The Colony (1st season was pretty good 2nd has not had some of the coolness factor) Warehouse 13 Chuck Stargate Universe South Park Weeds Bullshit! and on Revision 3 Hak5 (duh) Tekzilla Scam School Dig reel Penn Point And of course this is not all at 1 time as the seasons stop

Wow talk about trying to screw you. Get yourself a router. I don't see why it would cause any kind of issue with their network. when they ask you to probably install software just tell them you don't want to install their software and to just give you the configuration information. plug it into the router and your done. i have had ISP's try to pull this kind of crap with me in the past, all i ever had to do was to put a router in. I even had one ISP tell me that their internet was for use with 1 computer only. they never even knew that i had 4 set up. Depending on what kind of load your going to put on it though you might want to go ahead and spring for the larger package. but i know personally i have a 16 Mbps connection that even with 3 computers going full time, torrents downloading, gaming, video streaming etc.. i never come close to using that up. i MAY start feeling a pinch if i only had a 4 Mbps connection though. also check if they cap your bandwidth usage. not all that common anymore, but i know if my parents download more then 450mb per day they get their net locked out and have to pay a fee to have it turned back on again (satellite).

a few post's below yours i was going through issue's with TOR and getting it setup. http://www.hak5.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=17366 All i did was follow the instructions to the letter except i didn't use Pilpo just Privoxy. and also if i remember right BT4 is based on ubuntu, so look at the ubuntu documentation regarding TOR and Privoxy

Finally got TOR working correctly. removed Polipo and installed privoxy added the 1 line to the config file in privoxy and it started working just fine. yay glade that pain in the arse is over. Thank you everyone for your help.

Yep i replaced the contents of the config file with the TOR one. i've been going through and seeing if i needed to adjust any settings. so far i've tried uncommenting heres the config file for Polipo # Sample configuration file for Polipo. -*-sh-*- # You should not need to edit this configuration file; all configuration # variables have reasonable defaults. # This file only contains some of the configuration variables; see the # list given by ``polipo -v'' and the manual for more. ### Basic configuration ### ******************* # Uncomment one of these if you want to allow remote clients to # connect: # proxyAddress = "::0" # both IPv4 and IPv6 # proxyAddress = "0.0.0.0" # IPv4 only # If you are enabling 'proxyAddress' above, then you want to enable the # 'allowedClients' variable to the address of your network, e.g. # allowedClients = 127.0.0.1, 192.168.42.0/24 # allowedClients = 127.0.0.1 # Uncomment this if you want your Polipo to identify itself by # something else than the host name: # proxyName = "polipo.example.org" # Uncomment this if there's only one user using this instance of Polipo: cacheIsShared = false # Uncomment this if you want to use a parent proxy: # parentProxy = "squid.example.org:3128" # Uncomment this if you want to use a parent SOCKS proxy: socksParentProxy = "localhost:9050" socksProxyType = socks5 ### Memory ### ****** # Uncomment this if you want Polipo to use a ridiculously small amount # of memory (a hundred C-64 worth or so): # chunkHighMark = 819200 # objectHighMark = 128 # Uncomment this if you've got plenty of memory: # chunkHighMark = 50331648 # objectHighMark = 16384 ### On-disk data ### ************ # Uncomment this if you want to disable the on-disk cache: # diskCacheRoot = "" # Uncomment this if you want to put the on-disk cache in a # non-standard location: # diskCacheRoot = "~/.polipo-cache/" # Uncomment this if you want to disable the local web server: # localDocumentRoot = "" # Uncomment this if you want to enable the pages under /polipo/index? # and /polipo/servers?. This is a serious privacy leak if your proxy # is shared. # disableIndexing = false # disableServersList = false ### Domain Name System ### ****************** # Uncomment this if you want to contact IPv4 hosts only (and make DNS # queries somewhat faster): # dnsQueryIPv6 = no # Uncomment this if you want Polipo to prefer IPv4 to IPv6 for # double-stack hosts: # dnsQueryIPv6 = reluctantly # Uncomment this to disable Polipo's DNS resolver and use the system's # default resolver instead. If you do that, Polipo will freeze during # every DNS query: # dnsUseGethostbyname = yes ### HTTP ### **** # Uncomment this if you want to enable detection of proxy loops. # This will cause your hostname (or whatever you put into proxyName # above) to be included in every request: # disableVia=false # Uncomment this if you want to slightly reduce the amount of # information that you leak about yourself: # censoredHeaders = from, accept-language # censorReferer = maybe # Uncomment this if you're paranoid. This will break a lot of sites, # though: # censoredHeaders = set-cookie, cookie, cookie2, from, accept-language # censorReferer = true # Uncomment this if you want to use Poor Man's Multiplexing; increase # the sizes if you're on a fast line. They should each amount to a few # seconds' worth of transfer; if pmmSize is small, you'll want # pmmFirstSize to be larger. # Note that PMM is somewhat unreliable. # pmmFirstSize = 16384 # pmmSize = 8192 # Uncomment this if your user-agent does something reasonable with # Warning headers (most don't): # relaxTransparency = maybe # Uncomment this if you never want to revalidate instances for which # data is available (this is not a good idea): # relaxTransparency = yes # Uncomment this if you have no network: # proxyOffline = yes # Uncomment this if you want to avoid revalidating instances with a # Vary header (this is not a good idea): # mindlesslyCacheVary = true I'm in chat if you want to go through this and not post whore the forums

Nothing it won't pull any websites up at all just gives me a gray blank browser window. I followed the instructions at http://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-unix.html.en I am thinking i may have screwed up when installing Polipo. I remember having trouble with the su 'make install' command. that might be where the whole thing fell apart, but it did install polipo. ETA Now i'm working on it agian, i am getting an error stating that my proxy server is refusing connections

Well i installed Tor but have run into problems. every time i enable it i get a blank browser screen. anyone know a Wiki or forums that can help me trouble shoot this? it seems that there is no real support info on the TOR site.

Heh i'm partly there with you. i've been going back to school to try and get some kind of degree and have been wishing i hadn't. But my circumstance's are a bit different. i was laid off in oct of 08 and entered school in jan or feb of 09. one of my main problems though has been lack of derrection. while i have allot of interest's (IE Computers, manufacturing, welding, blacksmithing etc...) i have not been able to find something that i would like to do as a career. One of the things i found out personally is that the trade schools like devry, ITT etc cost way to much money for what you get. on top of that from what i have heard from various employers is that they look at the degrees from them as little more then someone without any. now i may have heard wrong but i've known far to many people with BS/BA degrees that have ended up flipping burgers or doing sales. please excise this a bit as its alcohol fueled atm...

Wow i had never heard of TOR before. Thank you i will try it out. for future reference I take it what i was looking for was http://www.torproject.org/

sometimes i'm visiting a site that i don't exactly want to have my IP address. any suggestions for reasonably fast anonymous proxy? all i'm looking for is good ol port 80 so relatively low bandwidth required. just viewing some non video based sites.

Your right sorry sometimes i get ahead of myself. Oki, Personally i would stay away from anything with an internal antenna. i know you live in a small place, but so do I, and my POS netgear WNR3500 has a internal antenna (got it for free sssooo) will give me around 75% signal strength from only about 8 feet away. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16833124343 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16833124385 its only a $10 difference in price. Oh the free router part, If you are with Comcast cable( at least in my area) they will now give you a free router, but like i said its a POS the only good part is that so far i havn't maxed out the ram in it like i used to do on my old WRT.

well heres the quote form wikipeida also you got me on the *ohh i wonder what kick ass routers are out there* kick you might want to research it a bit more but the linksys WRT160NL seems like it might be a good way to go right now, plus i think its around $40 cheaper. its on sale at newegg right now kind of low on the rom memory though http://dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Linksys_WRT160NL

Ok few things, your network is only has fast as its slowest link. So with that in mind if you want to run say a gigabit network but your old router is only say 100mps fast, it will slow down the rest of the network. Yes you can set your router into bridged mode and have it for extra ports on the network but you will need to tweak a couple of settings on it. also keep in mind firmware upgrades. I know i love using DD-WRT haven't tried open WRT yet, there's also Tomato. and probably a couple others i don't know about. for me i would look at the Linksys WRT series of routers. next to building your own *like so http://www.hak5.org/episodes/episode-718* i think they are the best IMHO for home users. they now make them with extra memory so linux geeks can get in there and flash new firmware onto it. (look for something like the old WRT54GL) the L stood for Linux based. you can check their website for the linux based routers and also check out the DD-WRT forums for some reviews and some really good info on routers. I heard of one of these routers being molded to send a wifi signal over 100 miles. also so you don't wish you had in the future make sure it can do Wireless N and Gigabit speeds. ETA: http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices has a good list on it. it looks like the new Linksys E2100L is a nice piece of hardware but doesn't look like its supported by DD-WRT yet. mmm Atheros chipset...

I would expect nothing less from a MAC user.....the one on the bottom of your post was probably one of the last good ones made.. well really ever since their first Ipod came out the quality of mac products had declined significantly. alright off to the river to get drunk and wet. enough of my Mac hate.

glade i'm not the only one who thought about this. does it also have a way to charge the battery or do you just replace them?