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@chaicka. Tks for your reply. Reason i asked abt throttling is becoz some other provider also advertised as no throttling..but the throttling is pretty obvious. Hence asking other VQ users abt user experience. Would you be able to help test streaming funshion and youku on the web instead of app?
 
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@chaicka. Tks for your reply. Reason i asked abt throttling is becoz some other provider also advertised as no throttling..but the throttling is pretty obvious. Hence asking other VQ users abt user experience. Would you be able to help test streaming funshion and youku on the web instead of app?
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It is entirely possible that an ISP can be too cheap to purchase sufficient upstream to meet its user’s needs… it's not technically throttling, then.

Unless you mean that specific types of traffic are heavily affected while others to the same destinations are not.
 
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shingo86 said:
@chaicka. Tks for your reply. Reason i asked abt throttling is becoz some other provider also advertised as no throttling..but the throttling is pretty obvious. Hence asking other VQ users abt user experience. Would you be able to help test streaming funshion and youku on the web instead of app?
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Youku probably, as long it does not requires install anything. I am on Mac platform now and further, I hated Funshion's security breach (malware all over, lots of sneaky traffic from the installed apps unwillingly installed some more). So Funshion = no go.

Just to set the right expectation: VQ is NO perfection.

Hiccups bound to happen but generally, over the last 1+ year with VQ, it has exceeded my demanding expectations far often than not. Probably my tolerant higher now as I aged and willing to give reasonable amount of time for them to fix.
 
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shingo86 said:
@chaicka. Tks for your reply. Reason i asked abt throttling is becoz some other provider also advertised as no throttling..but the throttling is pretty obvious. Hence asking other VQ users abt user experience. Would you be able to help test streaming funshion and youku on the web instead of app?
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Funshion is a P2P protocol, ur speed will be dependant on the peers in China. And dun forget with the nature of the Chinese ISPs and Great Firewall, the speed will naturally be unpredictable
 
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Maybe a decade or longer ago. Technology has advanced a great deal since. Readily available scripts, tools, etc that even kiddos are able to use to exploit vulnerabilities and hack into others' systems. Static or Dynamic does not make a great deal of diff unless it is specifically targeting a person or entity.

Used to be a 'white hat'... ;)

You may want to "refresh" to current era and cease to live in the stone age. The easiest targets are still those least protected ones, irregardless of static or dynamic IP since hackers won't know and won't bother to know (same sentiments as delphikit has shared).
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He does have a valid point — security through obscurity is acceptable for very few, consumer use cases.

However as white hat/security people, it's our job to scold people who claim security through obscurity works :p
 
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It is entirely possible that an ISP can be too cheap to purchase sufficient upstream to meet its user’s needs… it's not technically throttling, then.

Unless you mean that specific types of traffic are heavily affected while others to the same destinations are not.
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Yo... Be mindful of words/statements and the 'hat' that you now wears. ;)

I believe more and more subscribers (or even non-subscribers) will come to appreciate the way VQ has operated over the last 1+ year. Instead of spending a hefty amount of revenue on marketing gimmicks and sales tacts, significant has been used to re-invest into infrastructure such as buying more bandwidth, having its own US POP at a strategic location where majority of the world's larger networks converge at, equipment upgrades, etc.

Most of these "backend" happenings are usually not make known to subscribers or subscribers won't bother to know. But, it is these silent unmarketed activities that is making VQ different.
 
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Youku probably, as long it does not requires install anything. I am on Mac platform now and further, I hated Funshion's security breach (malware all over, lots of sneaky traffic from the installed apps unwillingly installed some more). So Funshion = no go.

Just to set the right expectation: VQ is NO perfection.

Hiccups bound to happen but generally, over the last 1+ year with VQ, it has exceeded my demanding expectations far often than not. Probably my tolerant higher now as I aged and willing to give reasonable amount of time for them to fix.
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Tks. Yes, i understand no isp is perfect. i just had to pick the lesser evil.

@andr3wyong: Terms that i used may not be correct. please pardon me. Just trying to get user feedback on their usage experience during peak hours from 9pm - 12am to US and China in general for example.
 
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Tks. Yes, i understand no isp is perfect. i just had to pick the lesser evil.

@andr3wyong: Terms that i used may not be correct. please pardon me. Just trying to get user feedback on their usage experience during peak hours from 9pm - 12am to US and China in general for example.
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Give us some links or your test plan so others can help if they want. Without consistency in test plan, hard to gauge.
 
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shingo86 said:
Sure.
Despicable Me from Youku. Even the advertisement is buffering for me right now lolz.

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I am getting this:
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Guess you need someone with Freedom VPN to help test. Sorry that I was not of help here.
 
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lol...
i'm just to clear out my doubt...
not mean anything =:p
seem no diff on security... in fact static has more benefit?
any negative point about static IP?
 
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Yo... Be mindful of words/statements and the 'hat' that you now wears. ;)

I believe more and more subscribers (or even non-subscribers) will come to appreciate the way VQ has operated over the last 1+ year. Instead of spending a hefty amount of revenue on marketing gimmicks and sales tacts, significant has been used to re-invest into infrastructure such as buying more bandwidth, having its own US POP at a strategic location where majority of the world's larger networks converge at, equipment upgrades, etc.

Most of these "backend" happenings are usually not make known to subscribers or subscribers won't bother to know. But, it is these silent unmarketed activities that is making VQ different.
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I obviously wasn't referring to Viewqwest when I said insufficient upstreams :p

It's merely a speculation, though also a common practice to oversubscribe to extremes for some ISPs (again, obviously not VQ policy and you can see VQ peering and upstreams on public BGP tracking websites, which is what I was researching before I decided to subscribe to VQ a year ago)
 
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lol...
i'm just to clear out my doubt...
not mean anything =:p
seem no diff on security... in fact static has more benefit?
any negative point about static IP?
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You probably don't want to be responsible for botnets, worms, viruses, SPAM, porn, illegal content and abusive behavior (that is, abusing others' servers and services)

But that should be the case even on dynamic IP.
 
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happychai said:
lol...
i'm just to clear out my doubt...
not mean anything =:p
seem no diff on security... in fact static has more benefit?
any negative point about static IP?
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You are fully accountable for anything that happens to your allocated IP address. Eg. If the users on your static IP abuses and gets blocked (such as DNSBL, File Hosting, etc), you are accountable and responsible for it. ;)
 
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