Proxies, especially free ones, have a life cycle measured in hours or even minutes. A proxy that works perfectly at 9:00 AM might be completely dead or throttled to a crawl by 10:00 AM. Why does this happen?
: A "Smart Proxy refresh time" setting (often defaulting to 60 minutes) controls how frequently the application updates its internal proxy status.
MegaBasterd circumvents data transfer caps through an internal system called . Instead of routing all data packets through your local residential IP address, MegaBasterd splits files into distinct chunks and requests them through alternating external intermediate servers (proxies).