On Feb 18, 2018, at 7:52 AM, John Robinson <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Interesting article on VPN hit on speed, it appears to be almost unbearable. > Maybe this isn’t the norm? It depends what you’re looking for. I don’t use a VPN for speed; I use it for security and changing my perceived location. Doing so without a speed hit is probably impossible. For what I do on the Internet, PIA speed is usually more than enough. Their test gave 64 Mbps down from PIA. For HD-quality streaming video, just 5 Mbps suffices. I’d worry more about latency than bandwidth. (Ask any serious online gamer about this!) If bandwidth were the primary consideration, we’d all have satellite Internet. The latency with satellites is often at least 100 times that of even a slow Internet connection. A group of traders even financed a new, shorter, fiber cable from New York to London, not to increase speed, but to reduce latency by a millisecond or so. L^2 PS/ It was interesting to read in last week’s indictment of those 13 Russians for election manipulation how they used VPN access. They set up VPN POPs in the USA so they could make it look like they were coming from the USA instead of Russia. --- Lee Larson [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Thus the good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth; lest, being in league with the devil, they may deceive errant souls into making common cause. — Augustinus De genesis ad literam, Liber 2, Caput XVII, Nr. 37
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