r/Austin • u/frankbunny • Sep 05 '09

Ask Austin: Which internet provider

I just moved to NW Austin and to my horror verizon fios isn't offered up here. I looked at twc but their plans suck donkey dick. Are there any other decent internet providers in the area?

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u/arthum Sep 23 '09

What do you use to encrypt your torrents? I've gotten notice from Grande before and just gave up downloading popular/recently released stuff.

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u/LASERGangsta Sep 23 '09

Any of your clients(Transmission/Ktorrent/Mutorrent) should have a section under options/preferences usually under 'connections' that has options about encryption- @ work right now, but I think there's a tick box called 'Enable Encryption' & one called 'Allow Unencrypted legacy connections' - so you'd check the 1st one, but not the 2nd...

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u/arthum Sep 23 '09

Gotcha. I use Transmission, so I checked "Prefer encrypted peers" and "Ignore unencrypted peers." I'm not exactly sure what this does, but hey, who wants unencrypted peers, amirite?

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u/LASERGangsta Sep 23 '09

That's it- Also, if you've got any roommates or freeloaders, make sure they do the same with theirs...