[ale] VPN

[Bob]

Hi Jim,

You can get some tv over the air.  It's probably a lot more private than 
any other method (provided you block the tuner from accessing the web).

--Bob

On 2020-09-30 7:48 p.m., Jim Ransone via Ale wrote:
> 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.
>> ------------------------------
>> *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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