- OT: Site check
- Posted by Terry Pinnell on April 8th, 2008
Would someone mind checking this out please? From a video forum
thread, I clicked the following link from a contributor to download a
3.5 MB ZIP file:
http://www.badongo.com/file/8710108
That took me to the page
http://www.badongo.com/fd/0367800704...936a9170/0/ifr
which informed me:
"You have exceeded your Download Quota!
Non-Members are allowed to download a maximum of 100 MB ...
YOU ARE CURRENTLY CONNECTED TO OUR SYSTEM WITH THE FOLLOWING IP
ADDRESS: 194.72.9.25
THIS ADDRESS HAS DOWNLOADED A TOTAL OF 468MB IN THE LAST HOUR
ALREADY."
Not really! I've never visited the site before 10 mins ago, trying
(unsuccessfully) to download this file.
Presumably just a plain scam? (It goes on to invite membership.)
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Terry, East Grinstead, UK
- Posted by Eric Parker on April 8th, 2008
"Terry Pinnell" <terrypinDELETE@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote in message
news:2ptmv3pg5891ctvcjfbjt8mha4tc0hi2m1@4ax.com...
It let me download the zip file no problems.
Deleted it now.
Eric
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- Posted by Roger Mills on April 8th, 2008
In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Terry Pinnell <terrypinDELETE@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote:
Have you got a fixed IP address, or a dynamic one which changes when you
disconnect your internet connection and then re-connect?
If the latter, you may have inherited an IP address from someone who had
just been using that site very heavily. Bit of a co-incidence though!
Or, have you got an unsecured wireless network which would allow someone to
sit outside your house with a laptop, and hack into your internet
connection?
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- Posted by Alan on April 8th, 2008
In message <9u6nv3hj7q57a7ijnl66vtlf7rgoge8d9c@4ax.com>,
mymail@hotmail.co.uk wrote
No problems here
Perhaps you are connected via your ISPs proxy server/cache. The download
figure may be the combined download for all customers of your ISP that
use the same proxy server.
The proxy server is often a configuration option in your browser and can
be left blank if you don't want to use one - assuming your ISP allows
this.
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- Posted by Jim Crowther on April 8th, 2008
In uk.telecom.broadband, on Tue, 8 Apr 2008 21:34:49, Alan wrote:
And no problems from here either. No proxy, no NAT.
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Jim Crowther
- Posted by JC on April 9th, 2008
"Terry Pinnell" wrote in message
Downloaded with no problems.
HTH
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JC
- Posted by kraftee on April 10th, 2008
Jim Crowther wrote:
Had 3 (had to wait 30 seconds between each) attempts & then it told me
I had downloaded to much yada yada yada a site not wishing to have
much usage me thinks...
