My Full Review On Www.anonx.com

[Sparkle1984]

Does using the proxy slow down your speeds at all?

[IWishAnon2609]

So you know I asked similar Questions to their TechSupport (yes I did find the email thankyou), they said that they didn't keep any logs at all with

"**One expection**
We will monitor a log in attempt upon a customer's request because of problem.
Just the log in attempt nothing more. As soon as the problem is solved we
deleted all the records of the log in attempts."

and

"E-mails are deleted as soon as questions are anwsered
and problems solved. We do NOT track customer traffic at anytime for any
reason!!!"

I'll be extra paranoid for a second here, is there any chance that this could be a front for an anti-p2p company, I would say only the more security consious sharers will use this, ie-KL++ users and the 'harder' (but by no means impossible) to catch. Wouldn't this be a good way to get em'.
When you sign up do you sign any kind of legal contract etc etc, which would make it impossible for this to be the case?
And the fact that they are so open in emails?, wouldn't this get them in trouble in a legal guy pretending to be a user asked these same questions?
Just a paranoid point, hopefully this is as good as it sounds.

[N£MO]

What if this company are really the RIAA and they have set this up to trap p2p'ers??

Becareful of who you trust.

[SeK612]

I just use a proxy in IE (its free and relatively fast ). It suits me fine. I think it keeps me fairly anonymous (although I'm not sure whether this effects P2P apps...) and since my ISP don't seem too against filesharing I don't really need anything better.

As far as I know you have to keep some sort of records and no doubt the RIAA or MPAA could force them to start tracking connections (and / or use court action to shut them down) although Anonx might contact their customers warning them if this were to happen.

[james_bond_rulez]

just to give you some idea of speed

this is a screen shot of the bt client sharing with the proxy ON, note i've taken the file names off for obvious reason and the tracker for the first torrent is down at the moment.



the upload speed is running at top speed i've limited : 30kB/s

download speed: pretty amazing but can go even faster if the first tracker were working..



all of these torrents are relatively new releases and some of them movies

[IWishAnon2609]

Sek:Are you sure proxy's need to keep logs?, and does anyone know how this logs thing works as they have proxy's based across several countries?, does this mean that some proxy's dependant on the country in which they are based would require longer logs than others?, or is it entirely based on the country in which the company is registered?, in which case, if Bond is right, anyone know the logging rules for proxy's in Switzerland?

[james_bond_rulez]

Originally posted by IWishAnon2609@4 December 2003 - 17:22
Sek:Are you sure proxy's need to keep logs?, and does anyone know how this logs thing works as they have proxy's based across several countries?, does this mean that some proxy's dependant on the country in which they are based would require longer logs than others?, or is it entirely based on the country in which the company is registered?, in which case, if Bond is right, anyone know the logging rules for proxy's in Switzerland?

does anybody read my entire first post?

[james_bond_rulez]

this is from the founder of anonx.com him/herself

"James,


This is the founder and an owner of AnonX. We are not RIAA/MPAA or
anyway affiliated with them. Let me give you the brief history of AnonX
to sooth your concerns.

I worked as the IT Director for an ISP that provided Internet bandwidth
to several college dorms. My department was bombarded with request by
Sony and others to turn over the names of college students who where
sharing 2-3 songs and a movie. They wanted us to perform the equivalent
of a wire tape without a court order. Plus Sony demanded that we turn
OFF our "guilty" customers. What company in America dictates the
customers another company can services? None! Let me qualify the next
statement by saying I am for up holding the law. RIAA/MPAA/SONY/Others
(Watch Dogs) are abusing their powers generously granted to them from the
US Congress. The Watch Dogs were playing big brother in my opinion
infringing on individual rights. The Watch Dogs coupled with the fact that
other anonymous proxies are not a complete service lead me to
developing AnonX.

The primary problems with other proxy services are low bandwidth, very
centralized, and useful for only a select group of ports and protocols.
I have made a commitment to large amounts of bandwidth and many/many
servers around the world, and as you have seen all ports all protocols
all the time.


If you or your P2P friends have anymore questions please ask.


-----
Thanks for your business,
Owner of AnonX"

[AnonXO]

Hi to All,

James Bond asked me to chat with the klboard forum about AnonX and Internet privacy. I am the founder of AnonX. AnonX's Mission statement is to protect the identity and privacy of web users for all types of traffic.


In the last three years our rights to surf/download/share/etc have been compromise. Congress has generously given power to RIAA and others to police copyright material. I was the IT Director of an ISP that provided Internet services to private dorms. I was bombarded with request from Sony to shut off students and turn the "guilty student" over to Sony for sharing 2-3 songs and a movie. When my former company tried to ignore Sony they demanded that we use whatever tools necessary to find these individuals, turn them off, and give Sony their personal information. I support this country and I believe in following the law. With AnonX I found a way to keep the letter of the law and protect web users rights to privacy.

If anyone has questions regarding the privacy laws or AnonX service. I will be glad to answers them.



---Thanks



PS.

James - Your connection is compressed and encrypted. Your bandwidth measurements especially with web traffic will be skewed. AnonX allocates 1.5Mbs per customer. You may exceed this bandwidth if it is avaivable, but you are allocate 1.5 Mbs. The encryption does not slow down the connection. The Array of servers used are the best on the plant.

[RealitY]

Originally posted by AnonXO@4 December 2003 - 12:42
Hi to All,

James Bond asked me to chat with the klboard forum about AnonX and Internet privacy. I am the founder of AnonX. AnonX's Mission statement is to protect the identity and privacy of web users for all types of traffic.

If anyone has questions regarding the privacy laws or AnonX service. I will be glad to answers them.

---Thanks

Nice to meet you, please keep in mind we are but a bunch of paranoid nutjobs...