open vpn

[Kerry Hoath]

You can't bypass throttling at the isp as they control the send bandwidth 
not you.
As for throttling torrents etc putting them inside a vpn would hide the 
trafic from your isp but they could just throttel your connection based on 
volume.

They could also limit the speed of vpn trafic if they thought your usage was 
excessive.
Also you'd have to put everyone on vpns for torrents to work; not a trivial 
procedure.
Regards, Kerry.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Homuth" <james at the-jdh.com>
To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" 
<speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 3:57 AM
Subject: RE: open vpn


> This might be slightly off-topic for the list, and if so feel free to 
> reply
> to me privately. Will having a VPN give you the opportunity to bypass
> methods of encription/throttling introduced at the ISP level? Part of me
> wants to say no, but I'm not altogether certain of it.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca 
> [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of Kerry Hoath
> Sent: May 4, 2009 3:34 PM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: open vpn
>
> I'd also recommend looking at the howtos on http://www.openvpn.net
>
> There are options to allow you to replace the default gateway on your
> Windows box without loosing internet connectivity. alternately you could 
> use
> squid on your server and work through a proxy but i'd guess you want all 
> the
> connectivity you could get.
> There is also a book on openvpn from www.paktpub.com but it costs money, 
> as
> does the service from www.vpnout.com
>
> If you follow the howto's completely and patiently you'll have what you 
> want
> working in an hour or so.
> I'd recommend a routed vpn, with static keys as they are easy to configure
> and under Windows use openvpn-gui from http://www.openvpn.se makes it 
> easier
> to control the service under Windows.
> Regards, Kerry.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow at gmx.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1:11 AM
> Subject: Re: open vpn
>
>
>> Doing what you want isn't all that hard.  Just look at the server.conf
>> that comes with openvpn as a sample and make the needed modifications
>> for your system.
>>
>> On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 10:15:02AM -0600, Tyler Littlefield wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> I was wondering if anyone has used open vpn quite yet.
>>> If so, how dificult was it? I'm trying to get it going. I can see how to
>>> create tunnels, but basically what I want to do is redirect all traffic
>>> from my windows system out my server so that I can get around these
>>> stupid firewalls.
>>> Is this hard to do? everything I've seen is "private network."
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Tyler Littlefield
>>> Web: tysdomain.com
>>> email: tyler at tysdomain.com
>>> My programs don't have bugs, they're called randomly added features.
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>> sliced bread.
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