[ale] VPN recommendations?

[Byron Jeff]

I have PIA (Private Internet Access) also. It's usable, but I get a bit
frustrated that it seems to drop heavily loaded connections at the drop of
a hat. I finally wrote a script that monitors the tunnel and restarts it
when it drops. It also incorporates a kill switch using IP tables so that
there is no leakage back to the ordinary connection when the tunnel drops.

Overall it works, but the continual starting and stopping kills the
throughput.

There are a ton of pages and requests on the subject of PIA dropping
connections. I never found a workable solution that stops the dropped
connedctions. So I really just have a band-aid that mitigates the fact that
I know it's going to drop.

But it's $3 and change a month. Can't complain about the price.

BAJ

On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 09:17:34AM -0400, dev null zero two via Ale wrote:
>    I can highly recommend PIA and Torguard wrt # of locations around the
>    world AND speed. I can reach the single thread limit of the OpenVPN
>    client on my CPU (130 Mb/s) with both services.
>    however, if you are going to heavily restricted countries that actively
>    monitor VPN endpoints, your best bet is to setup your own Shadowsocks
>    server as that is less detectable.
> 
>    On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 9:13 AM, DJ-Pfulio via Ale <[1]ale at ale.org>
>    wrote:
> 
>      On 03/16/2018 09:04 AM, DJ-Pfulio via Ale wrote:
>      > VPNs change their policies all-the-time. The good ones change from
>      week to week.
>      >  What can we do?  TorrentFreak does a review of VPNs every year,
>      usually in
>      > February.
>      This is unclear. Sorry.  Because VPN providers enter the market all
>      the time,
>      which is "da best" changes all the time.
>      There are free VPNs - where your traffic is the product. Just
>      depends on what
>      you really want.
>      Also, you can run your own VPN on a VPS if you don't want it at
>      home, but still
>      want to have control and don't trust the big VPN providers.  If you
>      set it up
>      right, it would be about 3 minutes to bring it up and would only
>      need to be
>      running when you are traveling, so the total cost would be pretty
>      small at a
>      pay-by-the-minute VPS.
>      Lots-o-options.
> 
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Byron A. Jeff
Associate Professor: Department of Computer Science and Information Technology
College of Information and Mathematical Sciences
Clayton State University
http://faculty.clayton.edu/bjeff