1. How to bypass Streamyx web filter

    There are currently two approach to bypass the filter. One thing for sure, tmnet is not taking this filtering issue seriously, as it's pretty easy to trick the system and access blocked sites.

    1. Change your DNS server.
    (for win XP)
    Here for a video tutorial for vista

    Edit : I've made an exe to switch dns automtically. Download it here

    Your OS is configured to use the default DNS server (which is the streamyx dns server), and tmnet exploited this default setting by configuring it's dns servers not to resolve blocked website's IP address. This made it easy for streamyx to block sites, but it also made it fairly easy for us to bypass this.

    First, go to 'network connections' and right click the connection which your computer is connected to the internet(be it WLAN or LAN or whatever), click on properties.

    Then on this window as shown on the figure, look for 'Internet Protocol', click it then click on properties.



    Then, change the DNS setting to 'use the following DNS addresses:'
    This will allow you to configure your desired DNS server to use, instead of the 'auto' which uses the default streamyx dns.




    get youself an alternate DNS server (e.g. OpenDNS)
    208.67.222.222
    208.67.222.220

    I use OpenDNS because it's the fastest and most reliable.

    Click on OK and close everything, then go to cmd and run the ipconfig/ flushdns to use your newly appointed DNS server.

    You should be able to view 'lots' of sites now. (e.g. you know what)

    -OR- (if you want to go even further (e.g. bypass web or location based censor)

    2. Use TOR - the free p2p web anonymiser

    this is simple and straightforward.

    go to tor download and download TOR.

    It is pretty straightforward, but to stay anonymous, please use the provided Firefox portable, and the provided pidgin IM.



    and now you can practically be anywhere or anyone in the world. and that said, you can have the unfiltered and uncensored open internet privilege. You are not in malaysia anymore.

    How did i know:

    thanks to the transparency of google chrome, i was able to pinpoint the issue right away (everytime you tried to access blocked site, it doesn't load and shows a DNS could not be resolved problem), and that is basically the answer to the problem.

    i used to think that streamyx has implemented something more aggresive, like keyword based filter or content screening, like the ones offered at school internet, but to my surprise it was relatively easy to bypass the filter by just tweaking a few settings.
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  2. Screamyx Rambler : Rambling one

    it's all fucking corruption money. With that noob HSBB project on going, telekom can suck more money and put into their own pocket while saying ' HEY DOING BROADBAND INFRASTRUCTURE IS REALLY EXPENSIVE YOU KNOW?! ' 8.6 billion ringgit wasted, just like that.

    I mean wtf? I'm still using a RM99 1mbps while in UK you can RM56 with 20mbps unlimited. And blame it on the fucking monopoly of TM, where it is still lengang lengang thinking ' HEY YOU CANT RUN AWAY FROM ME HAHAHAHAHAHAH ' and look at p1 and maxis broadband, their QoS either sucked or more or less the same as streamyx.

    My verdict is, STOP CORRUPTION, NATION FLOURISH!
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  3. Philips SHE9550

    -Bass sounded too bloated
    -Bass sounded too bloated, and desperate at times.
    -Bass sounded too bloated, everything is just too sharp and it hurts your ear, especially the bass.
    -Bass sounded too bloated, like bass gone drunk.
    -Bass sounded too bloated, like bass gone wild, and hurt people in the process.
    -Bass is too powering seriously, i never said i hate bass, just that, adequate amount of it would be better.
    -it's just went burrr burrrrrrr it's not the genuine grunt that makes you go mmmmm, instead the bass so strong that it distorted my ear.
    -I even need to set the equalizer to the bare minimum, because the bass dominated the whole soundstage and it's impossible to sit back and relax because it's just so hard to try to listen to songs with such heavy and uncontrolled bass. Imagine trying to look at at birds in the sky when the sun is shining right in your eye.
    -Mid range sound bland, it's so limited and tight, too quiet.
    -Mid range sound bland, it's so quiet, just to compensate and amplify the clarity, and that is bad.
    -No dynamics, it's as if the earphones itself has a normalizer. Bad one.
    -To describe what i hear through the track of 'about you' by moonbeam, 'BBBBBBBBOOOOM DIDI BOOOOOM BIRRGHHHH RGHHHHHHHH BRRGHH BOOM DCHIII IIIiEEEK BUUUMMRGHHH RGHGHHHHHHHH' (AHHHHHH SO ANNOYING)
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  4. What's the big fuss about TM FIREWALL?

    Damn.

    I mean, I thought I was gonna puasa for internet-content when the MSC declared to block explicit websites from us.

    But wtf? Did they even try to enforce their block or what? The thing is, our computers are configured to use the ISP's dns servers if we don't specfically provide them with the DNS server address.

    For me, there are still so many loopholes in their so-called blockers. You can have :

    1. Tor - as a proxy to access all the shit you want
    2. openDNS - so you won't be a dog eating shit food from streamyx DNS servers
    3. google page cache - though this doesn't do flash or java

    208.67.222.222 << openDNS dns servers.

    To change who your computer request for DNS, simply go to (WIN XP) your the connection which connects you to the net.... TO BE CONTINUED
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  5. Damn

    Take a good look at my pre-stone age laptop.

    Its pretty fucked up, all parts are not working except for the keyboard, screen, processor and the whole piece of shit to make it boot.

    i can't even run linux on it, due to the fact linux is too new for it. no hopes for live boot too, bios is 10 years old phoenix BIOS ftw.

    it does facebook and youtube and all that crap ok, but when it comes to more intensive flash and videos it just gets choppy and laggy, don't even mention HD content.

    write again soon. hopefully
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