[ale] VPN

[Chris Fowler]

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 <ale at ale.org>
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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