[ale] VPN

[Jim Ransone]

Thanks for the info. I don't play any video games, so I guess latency is
not anything I need to worry about. We have cable internet and have daily
interruptions (or maybe they are just extreme slowdowns, but the result is
the same) in our signal that drive my wife crazy. I read that the cable
company will throttle people who stream video instead of paying for cable
tv and that a VPN can thwart that. Anyone ever heard of that?

On Wed, Sep 30, 2020, 7:03 PM Chris Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>
wrote:

> They are going to slow down your Internet speeds because your first hop
> from your VPN public IP is after the DC where the VPN terminates.  Privacy
> requires trust of the VPN provider too.  You trust the VPN provider more
> than Comcast?  For streaming you don't require low latency as much as you
> require low jitter.  It's okay if the packets come slow, but they need to
> arrive at the same slow rate.   For video games you need as little latency
> as possible.  A VPN could cause a problem there.  Based on privacy
> concerns, I imagine you'll want string encryption.  You'll want a service
> that can de/encrypt very fast.
>
> VPNs can come at a benefit.  I wanted to watch the REAL BBC, now BBCA.  I
> created a VM at DigitalOcean in London, and created a router device using a
> BeagleBone Black that would use OpenVPN to make any device connected to its
> AP appear as if it were in London.  This worked well for a while, but it
> was a pain maintaining the BBC app on Android since that was needed to
> start Chomecast streaming.  I abandoned the idea months later.
> Occasionally, I will fire up the VPN connection on my home router so that
> we get Internet access from London.  I then wait for people in tthe hose to
> say something.  Google has changed, NetFlix has changed, etc.  Since I was
> using a VM inside of a DC in LON, NetFlix did not have the address listed
> as a "typical VPN provider".  As far as NetFLix was concerned, I was in
> London.
>
> My BBB AP router device also did TOR.  How can we truly trust any TOR exit
> node?
>
> IPVanish offers speeds up to 50M at aroud $10/mon.
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> *From:* Ale <ale-bounces at ale.org> on behalf of Jim Ransone via Ale <
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> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 30, 2020 5:33 PM
> *To:* ale at ale.org <ale at ale.org>
> *Subject:* [ale] VPN
>
> My apologies if this has already been discussed. What do you all think
> about VPN's? Do they slow down your internet speed? Are they worth it
> for the privacy/security?
>
> Jim
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