YOUR-FREEDOM TIPS
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* Protocol restrictions on some servers
* In HTTPS mode, my connection seems to fail often?
* Windows only allows 10 incomplete TCP connections!
* I'm having high latency in a game I'm playing, what can I do?
* I'm getting lots of messages about clock skew, what's wrong?
* My application refuses to use 127.0.0.1 or localhost as a proxy, what can I do?
* Can I run an FTP server using server port forwards?
* I'm having problems with Vista!
* Resolving host names in OpenVPN mode doesn't work!
* YF does not work with AMD64 Windows systems
* Why can't I update my online game?
* I don't want to be automatically connected to a server in the US. How can I connect to a European server (and vice versa)?
* Why is my package listed with a value of 0.00 EUR and I can't cash it in?
* Why do I get "server says: connection timed out" messages? I'm a paying user!
* I'm a TOTAL user and still can't get enough throughput!
Headerbutton Protocol restrictions on some servers
Unfortunately, some of you use a perfectly legal technology to do perfectly illegal things. We appreciate that this may be the main reason why you are using a service like Your Freedom in the first place (even though we don't permit it), but it is still causing trouble in some places, namely the US, where the service providers are under a lot of pressure to combat copyright infringements. Stupidly this is not technically possible (and not a technical problem in the first place!), but their standard way of ensuring conformity with legal requirements is to shut down routing to IP addresses that have been reportedly used to register content or interest with tracker servers that infringes on other people's rights, and this is part of their general business terms. In essence, this means that we are facing two options: not have any servers at all in the US, or ensure that there is no easily detectable illegal activity through them (just for clearness: our Acceptable Use Policy makes it perfectly clear that we do not tolerate violation of other people's rights, but we are not the police and not responsible for uncovering such cases). For the benefit of those of you who need topologically close servers for applications like gaming, we have decided to restrict the servers in question (ems01, ems10, ems16, and on special user request ems08) -- P2P applications will no longer work with them. We appreciate that there are many legal uses for P2P technology (for example, many online games use this technology to distribute updates) but there is no automated way of telling the difference. We are currently working on a mechanism that ensures that automatic server selection does not shift you from a server of one group to a server of another; in the meantime, to avoid problems arising from being pushed off to a server that you cannot use for your application, please select a suitable server manually (via the Wizard -- select high preference for P2P enabled servers first) and disable automatic server selection.
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Headerbutton In HTTPS mode, my connection seems to fail often?
Have you enabled "true SSL"? If you don't need it (i.e. you can establish a connection without this option), switch it off.
Are you not using "true SSL"? If your web proxy breaks your connection early (i.e. very often, every second or so), try to switch it on.
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Headerbutton Windows only allows 10 incomplete TCP connections!
Indeed, XP does that starting with SP2. That's annoying for P2P users. Here's an article on how to fix the problem: http://www.speedguide.net/read_articles.php?id=1497
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Headerbutton I'm having high latency in a game I'm playing, what can I do?
Enable round trip time measurements by configuring periodic measurements every 2000 milliseconds. Start the connection and play your game. If you encounter latency problems, check out the message log -- are the round trip times going up in spikes? If yes, fire up the task manager, locate the java/javaw/freedom process (the name depends on how you started it), then right-click on it and change the priority to "higher than normal" or "high". If you don't know how to increase the priority, here's how. Fire up the task manager (Ctrl-Alt-Del). Click on the "Processes" tab. Click on "Name" to sort by name. Locate the process (it's called "freedom.exe" if you are using the big installer version, otherwise it's called "javaw.exe" or "java.exe"), right-click on it and choose "Set priority". Select "higher than normal" or "high". A window will pop up, asking you whether you are sure. Say "yes". Unfortunately you'll have to do this everytime you run Your Freedom. If that doesn't help, try another server. Try a different connection mode as well.
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Headerbutton I'm getting lots of messages about clock skew, what's wrong?
Likely your system is very busy. It happens a lot with CPU greedy games. Try to increase the priority of the java/javaw/freedom process in task manager to "higher than normal", this should fix it. You really want to fix it because if clock skew is detected when there isn't any, it means that your connection will be hanging sporadically as well, resulting in latency and hangs in the game.
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Headerbutton My application refuses to use 127.0.0.1 or localhost as a proxy, what can I do?
We know that some apps just don't like 127.0.0.1 as web or SOCKS proxy. Sometimes they refuse it, sometimes it just doesn't work. An example is Yahoo messenger. But there are ways around it. Most apps can be fooled by other representations of the same IP address, like one of the following: 127.0.1 127.1 2130706433 Don't be amazed -- these all represent 127.0.0.1 and the system libraries will happily accept them.
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Headerbutton Can I run an FTP server using server port forwards?
FTP is a tricky protocol. It's not a problem to make the control connection work (that's the one you use to log in and to initiate the transfers), but all data (including directory listings) uses a separate connection either initiated by the server (active mode) or by the client (passive mode). In active mode, the client listens on a port for a connection opened by the server and tells the server about its IP and port number using the "PORT" command. In passive mode, the server gets asked by the client to listen on a port and accept connections from the client; the client uses the "PASV" command to ask the server and the server replies with an IP address and port if it is willing to accept the connection. Now consider your networking situation. Your server listens on IP address 127.0.0.1, it probably doesn't know the IP address of the YF server (your external IP) so it won't be able to use it in replies to the PASV command. Even if you forwarded more ports and the server had the ability to announce these ports and the YF server's IP address it would not be very practical. So let's look at active mode where the client would ask the server to connect to it. This can work -- but only if the FTP server knows to use YF to open this connection. To summarize: if you start your FTP server using a socksifier so that it opens outbound connections through YF and you forward inbound control connections to the server's control port (21), you might be able to make active mode work. Passive mode (the default of many browsers nowadays) will not work. Alternatively, give OpenVPN mode a try. It should make active mode work as well without the need for a socksifier.
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Headerbutton I'm having problems with Vista!
Well, who doesn't? :-) Vista has broken many things for Java. The latest Java releases work around these problems but earlier versions, such as the one bundled with the full installer version, don't. This means that you should not use the full installer version with Vista. Use the smaller installer version or the ZIP file version instead. It relies on the currently installed Java runtime engine of your system instead of bringing its own. Make sure your version of Java is supporting Vista (and don't let yourself be confused by Microsoft's smoke grenades -- they were never supporting Java and never will, so this isn't actually news). We won't start shipping full installers that support Vista; instead, we will more likely cease to ship them at all.
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Headerbutton YF does not work with AMD64 Windows systems
More precisely, a little bit of the YF client does not work, because it relies on an external DLL that has been compiled for IA32 systems. We should have never started using native code, but it's just not possible to support Windows properly without. Blame the guys in Redmond. The part that does not work is the "Applications" wizard, something you probably don't need anyway. Starting from version 20070227-01 you can turn it off using the command line option "--noappwizard". This should fix your problem and make YF work. In the smaller of the two installer versions (the "full installer" version probably doesn't work at all) you can add this option to the link that you use to start YF. Find the Your Freedom link on your desktop, right-click on it and choose Properties. Locate the "target" field and add to the end of it (using a space in-between) the option --nowizard
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Headerbutton Why can't I update my online game?
You can, just not on all servers. Many online games, including World of Warcraft and Lineage 2 use Peer To Peer (P2P) technologies, BitTorrent in most cases, to distribute updates. These protocols are not permitted on some of our servers. Note that because these servers may not be used for bandwidth-intensive P2P applications they are good choices for online gaming -- just not for updating the game.
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Headerbutton I don't want to be automatically connected to a server in the US. How can I connect to a European server (and vice versa)?
Go to Status -> Actions -> Configure -> Server Connection -> Options
-> Automatically select best server
The YF client will connect to the server which has been specified as your initial YF server (e.g. emsXX.your-freedom.de, XX between 01 and 11). The actual server location is displayed in Status -> Connection -> Server located in.
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Headerbutton Why is my package listed with a value of 0.00 EUR and I can't cash it in?
Most likely because you haven't paid for it or at least it does not have a cash value (for example, packages created using vouchers cannot be cashed in). Also, when we combined all different ways how we stored packages, some of the tables did not have a stored value or a price. This is especially true for those that were processed manually in the past. Of course your paid-for package does have a price and a value, but there's no way how we can figure it out without you telling us. If you wish to trade in one of these packages and you still have the purchase details, please contact our support team and we'll fix it for you. Note that this only applies to packages bought before September 2006!
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Headerbutton Why do I get "server says: connection timed out" messages? I'm a paying user!
The message is misleading and has nothing to do with your account type or the server not liking you. Both client and server send "ping" frames to each other every now and then. If one end hasn't seen a "ping" from the other for a while, it will first time out the connection, then if two-way communication could not be re-established, also the session. If there is a slight chance that the connection still works in the other direction, a notification frame is sent to the other end in order to get the connection back up as quickly as possible. If nothing worked for approximately 200 seconds, the session is timed out and another notification sent (the one that results in the message above). Imagine your client is still able to see frames coming from the server, but the server doesn't see your client anymore. It can't reconnect to your client, obviously, so it tries to notify the client, and the client can then reconnect. If that doesn't work either but the server can still speak to the client through an older connection that only works one-way, you will see this message. It means that it was not possible to connect to the server in a way that the server actually sees your data. In short, you see this message because your server connection has failed persistently in one direction. If you see it often, try another connection protocol (e.g. try "CGI" or "FTP").
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Headerbutton I'm a TOTAL user and still can't get enough throughput!
TOTAL users really do not have any imposed bandwidth restrictions, and our servers should be able to provide 10 Mbit and more of bandwidth to you. However there are some things that you need to take care of in order to obtain the best possible throughput.
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