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Thursday, August 13, 2009

IPREDator

A TPB company
The Pirate Bay announced a while ago a new service called IPREDator. It's a VPN (Virtual Private Network) service for the rest of us. VPN's are generally used by big company to help away workers keep in touch with their work documents. By using a VPN connection, they can have the same access as they normally have in house but kilometers away. IPREDator is the same kind of service but not for managing your home documents. It was designed to give you an private and 100% secure internet access. It uses industry-grade 128bit encryption to assure you that no one, not even your IPS, will be able to peek in your data transfers.

This is specially useful if your ISP is using a proxy or if it's limiting peer to peer transfer speed. The idea is to tunnel every internet communication through the VPN and access the internet from a unlimited internet access in Sweden. And it work quite well actually! I've been beta testing the IPREDator service for three days now and I think this service as a great potential.

What does beta means?
It means that if you try IPREDator, you'll experiment everything that a beta is. Slow, buggy and somewhat limited. I had a lot of issue accessing some websites and very slow speed. In fact, it literally split my internet access in half. But, on the other side, I can't complain since it do it's job. My IPS normally limit P2P traffic at 25 KBps between 18h and 2h30. When I enabled the IPREDator service, I got a lot of speed back. I jump from 25 KB to 250 KB witch is pretty good.

As I said, this service is currently in private beta and with reasons, I doubt that it wouldn't blow up if everybody could try test it right now. If it don't it will just be slower and slower. Let's give TPB some time to make it work well before starting to use it every day.

5 comments:

  1. Wow! You need an English and grammar lesson.

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  2. no. no he doesn't need lessons you try and speak his native language. Why dont you thank him for the info you just received from him instead of being a judgmental prick.

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  3. Are you still using this service? Has it gotten any faster since the beta period ended?

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  4. I used it for a couple months and it has gotten a lot faster with time. I don't anymore as my ISP finally removed the throttle on my connection but I'm pretty sure it is fast enough to handle any good 7.2 MBps connection.

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  5. After using IPREDATOR, my torrent download speed slows down BIG TIME. I was getting 1.5 to 3 MB/s without IPREDATOR VPN. Now I am only getting around 100 to 150 kb/s.

    I didn't expect VPN to slow down my download this much. For your info, I am on a 50MB/s uplink and 5 MB/s fiber link and I am connecting from Taiwan to IPREDATOR server.

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