qTox crashing your internet?

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  1. Michaela Joy

    Michaela Joy MDL Crazy Lady

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    Hi All,
    I just received the Spectrum 200 mbps Internet package, set it up, and went to go on tox when the modem crashed.

    There are issues regarding qTox and UDP. Here's my workaround.

    Go into the "Firewall" settings of the modem and turn off "IPV6 filtering".

    That's it. :)
     
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  2. MS_User

    MS_User MDL Guru

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    paranoid of big brother....what makes u think u safe their?
     
  3. Michaela Joy

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    @MS_User: What makes you think I'm worried about big brother? Perhaps I just don't like using skype for IM...
     
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  4. Michaela Joy

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    UPDATE: Apparently, there was a firmware update for my cable modem. qTox still crashes the Cable modem.

    Back to the drawing board. :(
     
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  5. Tiger-1

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    HI MJ, hmm you already try open Windows Firewall with advanced security there have a lot of settings to change or disable, so all related to IPV6 disable including inside of services.msc and inside of net config open little window and also disable IPV6 in sequence restart to see if now works
     
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  6. Michaela Joy

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    @Tiger-1: The problem is caused by the UDP protocol, and the ISPs might think that it's a DDOS attack.

    Sorry to say, it looks like the best thing to do is to replace qTox with something else.

    QuantumBug and I are evaluating retroshare. ;)

    http://retroshare.net/
     
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  7. Mr.X

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    Is it possible qTox dev can hear you out your UDP issues?
     
  8. Tiger-1

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    yep, now I understand then good luck for both solve this issue :)
     
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  9. Michaela Joy

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    @Mr.X: They're still working on it. IMHO, it's a major design change.
     
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  10. Mr.X

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    Hmmm, that could take a long long time ...
     
  11. Michaela Joy

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    So We ended up switching to Retroshare. It seems to work well.

    I'm not using the Tor version, but it's out there for anyone who wants to use it.
     
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  12. Mr.X

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    Gonna try Classic version as well, in a portable way.
     
  13. Muerto

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  14. MS_User

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    ha ha ha i dont think u truly understand privacy...their is none.
     
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  16. Mr.X

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  17. Tiger-1

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    :eek::rolleyes:
     
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  18. Michaela Joy

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    @MS_User: You have no idea how wrong you are. ;)
     
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  19. MS_User

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    NSA can monitor all encrypted traffic...GENIUS:rolleyes:
     
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