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Q: What is a Wingate?
A: A wingate is normally a program which allows multiply
computers on a network to share one internet connection. Many users
foolishly have their wingate setup for anonymous outside access which
means we can share their internet connection also. Many are run from
users at home with broadband connections and can be upload capped at
anywhere from 16KBps - 24KBps, occasionally you will stumble across a nice
and fast wingate with a really good transfer speed.
Q: What the heck are they for?
A: Primarily Wingates are used as an aid in FXPing files from
one pub to another. Now why do you need to use a wingate? Well
most pubs have FXP transferring disabled and you also cannot FXP from one
NT pub to another NT pub. If you use a wingate almost any set of
pubs becomes FXPable because the files go through the wingate. One
pub thinks it is uploading to the wingate and the other thinks it is
getting uploaded to from the wingate. The only downside to this
method of FXP transfer is that if the wingate is slow your transfer will
go slow. Always use the fastest wingate you have to speed up
transfers. Even with 56k you can FXP, and transfer files and
unbelievable speeds because FXPing uses almost none of your own bandwidth.
Here is what happens when you FXP with a wingate:
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FTP <=> Files & Commands <=> Wingate <=> Files & Commands <=> FTP
Secondly Wingates can be used to hide your own identity when messing
with pubs. Whether that be uploading, tagging or just browsing.
I always enable my Wingate while browsing pubs just to be safe. You
will notice a slight slowdown but it is worth it because most Wingates do
not have logging enabled, so the sysop of a pub would have to do a lot of
work just to get your ip. Even if logging is enabled on the wingate
most sysops will not bother to annoy the people for their logs.
Q: How do I get Wingates?
A: You can find them in posts in the "Scans" section of most FXP
boards. You can also learn how to find your own while doing a pub
scan in my Scanning - Getting Started
tutorial.
Q: How do I use these things?
A: I have found that this is a mystery to many people. It
can be tricky but once you figure it out it's simple to do again.
I primarily use Wingates with FlashFXP, but have also gotten them to work
in SmartFTP (May add info on this
later). If you don't already have FlashFXP downloaded and installed
do that now. Now all you need to do is go into the options and to
the "Proxy / Firewall / Ident" tab and enter in the correct information.
For the type select option 10, or if that causes error message with the
wingate option 11 can be used. *For FlashFXP < 1.4.2 use "User with no login (user@host port),"
or (user@host:port). Enter in your Wingates address
where it says "Host" and set the port number to 21. If you have a
port 23 wingate it will not work properly for FXP transfers, any other
port and it is most likely not a wingate. Some pubs/Wingates also
want to request and Ident so enable this and just put "@msn" for the user
id. That's it, your now ready to connect to pubs anonymously and FXP
with ease.
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