Just a warning about your internet access for CP/CS/IP

[Krozar]

Disney has teamed with SmartCity internet to give you a wretched connection behind a IP-shared NAT which scans every bit which goes through it and takes your 768kbs rated connection and knocks it down to 256kbs...or less. That's per apartment folks.

It also blocks just about every port. p2p...blocked, BT...blocked, gaming...you guessed it.

So, if you have any internet junkies in your apartment, you may be asked to chip into a "public IP" which directly connects your apartment router to the internet, bypassing the NAT. This costs $25 for 3 months. Very cheap and the difference is considerable. Can also upgrade to 1.54 public IP for $75 for 3 months. Between several people, this can also be quite affordable.

All I am saying is you don't really get free internet. It's not real internet, it's like a horrible test drive of something similar to the internet. Only really works for websites which is only a small part of the interwebs.

So be advised... your costs will be slightly higher per month unless you are more into First Life (the opposite of Second Life) than some of us losers.

 

[aka_emilicious]

At least there's a way around it! Looks like I'm saving $75 extra dollars for three months! Thanks for the info!

 

[rotherad]

What kind of speeds do the 2 upgrades entail?

 

[daklimation]

Just bypassing the NAT considerably increases your speed.

 

[cidhw95]

Who do you call and im still confused by the to offers. Can someone explain how i can get gaming then.

Thanks

 

[Krozar]

Call Smart City internet. (phone book and may be in the Program Guide)

The $25 for 3 mo. simply puts your apartment's IP directly on the open internet. It's less secure, but you get true 768kbs, no ports blocked (allows you to game, bit torrent, p2p, etc), and heavily decreases latency (lag).

$75 for 3 months includes the same things but doubles the speed to 1.54mbs which can allow download speeds of up to 192 kilobytes a second. (realistically ~170kB/s)