So year my first resolution became shifting from MTNL's unfriendly service to some (and later any) Broadband. And I shifted to Pacenet.
I am on a Rs 930, 1 Mbps Unlimited plan. (No FUP).
As with any new stuff, I am learning stuff that I never knew and trying to figure out the best way to use something. Pacenet requires you to login from a URL with your credentials before your net is activated. After which you can surf the Internet like normal.
But this login based browsing have a very annoying disadvantage. After sometime, you run of the session, and so you need to login again before using the Internet.
I purchased a TP-Link router (thanks to members at this thread). And configured it myself. It was very easy with the guide which came with the router.
As observed by me I can also login from my phone and Internet gets activated on all the other devices to which the router is connected to. But I require to login from the IP of Pacenet only. So this means suppose if my dad tells me that he can't access the Internet, I can't login from my job. He have to do that himself while connected to the connection provided by Pacenet.
Now this experience have raised following questions. I would be glad if members here can try to answer it for me.
1. How long does the session expire.
I can login from my PC and access Internet. And Even after shutting PC down in night, I can access Internet from my other devices. But when I wake up in the morning I am disconnected. So there must be some time before it gets reset.
2. Can I do some tweak in the router itself that I don't need to manually login each time the session expires?
3. I quote for this:
So how exactly do we sense the packets through wireshark, and can router be tweaked to allow the packets?
4. How exactly do we make a DC hub using DC++? (as a point raised by Utkarsh2008)
5. What steps you take to ensure that you always use HTTPS? Can someone steal the credentials if the pages I browse are not secure but the login was?
Eg: I login to TDF using secure page. But now I am browsing on HTTP.
I am not used to this session based browsing. MTNL was good in this regard. It was an always-on-ready-to-connect Internet. I miss it already.
PS: It's not required to answer everything at one go. We can discuss it over time.
I am on a Rs 930, 1 Mbps Unlimited plan. (No FUP).
As with any new stuff, I am learning stuff that I never knew and trying to figure out the best way to use something. Pacenet requires you to login from a URL with your credentials before your net is activated. After which you can surf the Internet like normal.
But this login based browsing have a very annoying disadvantage. After sometime, you run of the session, and so you need to login again before using the Internet.
I purchased a TP-Link router (thanks to members at this thread). And configured it myself. It was very easy with the guide which came with the router.
As observed by me I can also login from my phone and Internet gets activated on all the other devices to which the router is connected to. But I require to login from the IP of Pacenet only. So this means suppose if my dad tells me that he can't access the Internet, I can't login from my job. He have to do that himself while connected to the connection provided by Pacenet.
Now this experience have raised following questions. I would be glad if members here can try to answer it for me.
1. How long does the session expire.
I can login from my PC and access Internet. And Even after shutting PC down in night, I can access Internet from my other devices. But when I wake up in the morning I am disconnected. So there must be some time before it gets reset.
2. Can I do some tweak in the router itself that I don't need to manually login each time the session expires?
3. I quote for this:
The high speed in peer to peer file sharing on lan , is because of Local peer discovery protocol of torrent clients.
you can sense the packets in wireshark to see if there are such activities happening on the network.
ps , this won't work if you are using router . Its a broadcast , which the router will not allow to pass in to your PC .
So how exactly do we sense the packets through wireshark, and can router be tweaked to allow the packets?
4. How exactly do we make a DC hub using DC++? (as a point raised by Utkarsh2008)
5. What steps you take to ensure that you always use HTTPS? Can someone steal the credentials if the pages I browse are not secure but the login was?
Eg: I login to TDF using secure page. But now I am browsing on HTTP.
I am not used to this session based browsing. MTNL was good in this regard. It was an always-on-ready-to-connect Internet. I miss it already.
PS: It's not required to answer everything at one go. We can discuss it over time.