Satellite Internet & Porn

[10fingers]

I had my internet shut off about a year ago, one reason being that all I could get was dial up, which was so damn slow. Usually around 24kbps. I live in a rural area and there is no DSL. A local company was offering a deal on a internet satellite system so I gave it a try.

So far it's working very well, I'm getting from 350 to 500 kbps. One thing I have noticed and have a question about is this, when I am downloading a photo, video, or a file it seems to work very well, but when I am navigating a site it doesn't seem to be any faster than dial up. What I am wondering, is this a problem with the site, too much traffic perhaps or is it my browser/computer that has a problem?

Another question on a different note. Once I got the internet, of course I had to check out all the free porn on the net. There is just a shitload of it!

What I noticed after a few days on the world porn tour is that my computer really started to slow down and act erratic. I tried deleting cookies and temp internet files to no avail. I finally did a complete system restore and that seemed to fix the problem. What I am wondering is if anyone else has had these problems?

Also, twice I have gotten a virus off porn sites. When I clicked on a thumbnail, my computer wigged out and started popping up all these ads telling me I had a spyware virus and that I need to go to some site to get a fix for it, which of course there was a charge for. When I started up internet explorer it automatically directed me to their site. Fucking Bastards! If I could track these assholes down!

[Frunk]

You, sir, have caught alot of ITD's, Internet transmitted diseases. Or spyware, if you prefer.

Download the free Spybot - Search and Destroy (http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html).

Update it all. Read the readme. Put it in advanced mode, activate resident shield, immunize, go in the Tools Menu, ''file sets'', and activate all the boxes. Then go in system startup, unclick everything that is suspicious and use google if you aren't sure.

Then, go then do a scan. If prompted to, restart your computer. Anything that tries to reinstall itself on startup should be caught by the resident shield.

By now, you should be clean and your internet tracks erased as a bonus.

After that, go install Mozilla Firefox and be done with it.

[Hirudinea]

Internet Porn sites are just like whores, full of diseases, so wear a rubber.

[tmp]

10fingers, on uploading information, the transfer rate is usually a lot slower
than download. I'm on a cable connection. The DL is 8 mbits while the
UL is a pathetic 768 kbits. I'd glady trade off some of that DL for more UL.
This would make it faster for the FTP as well.

As for your system slowing down, some internet sites install that fucking
adware. If your running one of MicroShit's operating systems, a look at the
task manager or installed programs will reveal the beast. They've never done
any damage but I don't want unwanted software slowing up my system
either. Part of the problem with getting rid of it is that it can be in several
different places.

Installed programs, startup menu, system configuration, and the registry are
a few of the places it can be installed. Two years ago I found one that had
been placed in the \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 subdirectory. Every time I tried to
end the process I got the "Access denied' error. Eventually, I had to restart
the system in DOS to clean this sucker out. Whoever installed it had set
the SYSTEM FILE, HIDDEN, and READ-ONLY attributes. If it's installed in the
system registry, you'll need either a good virus cleaner or very specific set
of instructions to remove it. The registry is one of the most DANGEROUS
areas of your computer to modify.

Oh, BTW, if a bunch of popups tell you that you need their software to clean
the virus and/or ad(spy)ware, they're probably the bastards who put it there !

[ShadowMyGeekSpace]

One thing I have noticed and have a question about is this, when I am downloading a photo, video, or a file it seems to work very well, but when I am navigating a site it doesn't seem to be any faster than dial up.It's not the bandwidth that's the problem, it's the latency. I'm confident that you're running in half-duplex mode, and I know sattelite has more latency than copper.

To save typing: http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/rants/Latency.html

[10fingers]

Ok, thanks you guys. tmp, I got your message about the ftp and I will give it a try.
I know that the SOB's who put the adware in my computer are the same ones who are selling the fix. I never went to their site to find out who they were though. As soon as I realized that I got stung, I shut down and tried to get rid of it.
Motto, free porn is not free and wear a condom.

[c.Tech]

Search for your porn not by looking through sites but by using a video search engine or a p2p program like limewire.

With a video search you can find thousands of videos (samples) but still good porno :p.

Limewire isn’t as trustworthy IMO but I’ve had nearly no problems with it when I downloaded through it, just be prepared to get odd file names (My teen girlfriend 18 getting fucked by my fat cock -- teen, pedo, fuck, sex, ass, rape, pecker, shlong, insest, gay, bondage, hentai, midgit, lolicon, animal, elephant, horse.) :p

[festergrump]

That's one of the worst ways I know of to view porn, actually, for it also can throw any number of things you don't want on your HDD and you won't know it until you view it. A prime example is kiddie porn (Pedo, lolita, underage...all keywords to be wary of). How many passes scrubbing that shit off your harddrive will allow you to sleep peacefully after you delete it? I'd be dreaming of very quiet, black helicopters with liberal-loving gov. ninjas roping down around my house...

I sent 10 Fingers a few links to truly free porn in a PM, so I might as well post them here, too. They're good so long as you don't venture far away from the hosting site (each page hosted is checked out before being linked to). Let the hosts decide what's legit and what's not since they have staffers around for that purpose. If it's linked to directly from any of these sites it'll be over 18 yoa only and BS free:

www.ampland.com
www.shavedgoat.com
www.sublimedirectory.com

Happy surfing...

[ShadowMyGeekSpace]

There's always torrents... thepiratebay has alot of porn, and puretna is all porn(but a private tracker that watches ratio).

[nbk2000]

Is your satellite hookup a bi-directional satellite link (you upload through the satellite) or a one-way, with your computer sending URL requests through a phone line?

Anytime something pops up on your computer saying "You've been infected, click here", you should know you're about to get infected if you do click on it. :rolleyes:

Get firefox, get the suggested plug-in's, as mentioned in a previous post by me on the subject, and you're covered. :)

As for porn, I'd do the rapidshare download from forums (assuming you have a premium account), and not even bother with torrents which are usually intolerable slow or unreliable, but I've so much porn I've never watched that I've given away my porn discs. :)

[tmp]

ShadowMyGeekSpace, whether it's a desired byproduct of latency or not, my
ISP still limits ALL accounts, including business accounts, to 768 kbits UL.
It really sucks because the FTP could be a whole lot faster when members
upload. BTW, I loved that analogy of the 747 vs. 737 jets in the article. It
explains things in terms of capacity rather than speed although uploading
files from the FTP should send out much larger packets than just surfing a
website.

[ShadowMyGeekSpace]

tmp: Your bandwidth cap of 768kbits up is actually quite respectable, I've only got half a megabit. But as the article mentions, you can have plenty of bandwidth and still latency.... "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."

[10fingers]

NBK, yes the satellite is uplink too. No, I'm not going to click on anything that they tried to get me go to. It seems to me though that it would be very easy for someone to track the source of the virus when they're selling the fix. You have to pay them and that would be a direct link. Just seems stupid for them to try this. I'll try the firefox. Thanks.

This thing got me thinking about the whole anti virus software industry, maybe they're the ones creating and disseminating the new virii so that you have to keep upgrading. Microsoft is probably in on it too.

[Sausagemit]

If it's installed in the
system registry, you'll need either a good virus cleaner or very specific set
of instructions to remove it. The registry is one of the most DANGEROUS
areas of your computer to modify.

HighjackThis (http://www.download.com/HijackThis/3000-8022_4-10379544.html)

This program works extremely well in advanced mode and it's free. Rather than going in and deleting regestry values manually witch is a pain in the ass and is dangerous, as TMP said, this program hunts down registry strings (stuff that a simple search of the registry can miss) and deletes them. It's cleaned out the filthyest of spyware ridden computers with ease. I'm talking about over 100 running processes when only 26 are necessary. I recomend giving it a spin even if you don't know too much about computers becuase it is pretty user friendly too.

[sparkchaser]

Fire Fox is good, but another good one is Opera. With F-F becoming more widespread, viruses and spyware are starting to be designed that attack it specifically. Opera is a little less well known.

In the 2 years I've used Opera, I've only had 2 or 3 viruses that made it past my firewall, and both were easy to clean (this is with daily porn surfing through hundreds of sites).

My wife still uses Explorer because she's more comfortable with it, and has gotten us infected with more, tougher, and sneakier viruses from average sites on the web. (Of course I could upgrade to something other than Windows 2000 and it might help a bit!)

Nothing sucks worse than a system flood! Most computers can barely function with one of these types of virus, you have to go in using safe mode and manually search because you can't even open any programs in normal mode. The flood soaks up all your processor/ram capabilities, and if you're really (un)lucky, it can even fry your computer by overheating it!

[10fingers]

I put the Mozilla Firefox in today, so far it's working very nice. It's much faster and glitch free than IE. I like it!
Another question though, does the firefox browser automatically look for virus, adware, spyware? I have norton antivus 2004 which came already installed on my PC but after a trial period you have to pay to get it upgraded, it's like $30.00. Screw them on that.
There seems to be a lot of free virus software on the net, what I am wondering is this, if it's free is it any good?
I got the firefox for free, but I don't see how these software co.'s are making money giving this stuff away?
Ok, thanks, back to porn.

[Sausagemit]

AVG makes a free excelent virus scanner.

[atlas#11]

LOL, the topic is hilarious enough, the fact that so many responses came so quickly is even more funny.

Most of your problems probably came from scripts on pages and what not, if you downloaded firefox makesure you get some form of script blocker, they make it really difficult for you to actualy catch anything. Don't underestimate p2p networks porn collections, they beat the bejesus out of surfing for it. use something like shareaza or something that allows you to filter based on file size, most things under a megabyte are viri/spyware so you dont want them.

Temporary internet files are generaly the home to most of your major threats, I'd suggest deleting that folder regularly regardless of what your doing. If your not concious of stealing then the p2p networks may again come in handy, download a pirated version of antivirus.

Of course if you really want to get crazy try using a linux live cd, no way to get infected at all.

I find that sattelite net speed impressive, I'm on an ungodly expensive plan for dsl right now and the highest kbps I've seen is 70, and that wasn't very constant. How much are you paying for it?

[Defendu]

Direct link to AntiVir Guard anti-virus software:

http://www.free-av.com/

[10fingers]

Thanks, I' try it. The satellite is a bit expensive, you have to buy the dish, that was $200 installed, then the monthly fee is $50. They have different rates for how much you use it, for what I pay I can download 7500 Mb a month and I think the upload was 2800 Mb.
But I don't need to have a phone line anymore, just use my cell, and then you have the regular dial up internet fee, so you add those two together and it's around $50 a month.

[atlas#11]

I think were paying around 70 a month including some stupid call waiting service plus phone lines. Sattelite sounds pretty good, how does it work through storms and what not?

We have sattelite tv (dish network) up here and the signal is usualy pretty good through storms, thunderstorms dont seem to bother it much but every now and then a big black cloud will get in the way and kill the signal completely.

[10fingers]

We haven't had any storms since I got it so I can't say, but I asked the installer about that and he said that it doesn't happen, we'll see. I know with directv I have that problem. Heavy rain or snow and it goes out.
Another thing, I got the satellite internet through my electric co-op, I have no idea why they're in the business. They were less than the service that directv offers. Last time I checked with them about a year ago it was $500 for the dish and $60 per month.