Lee, I posted this for your response, I wanted your expert input. Thanks.
John Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 18, 2018, at 1:09 PM, Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Feb 18, 2018, at 7:52 AM, John Robinson <[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] > > 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 > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > Posting address: [email protected] > Archive: > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.mail-2Darchive.com_macgroup-40erdos.math.louisville.edu_&d=DwIFaQ&c=OAG1LQNACBDguGvBeNj18Swhr9TMTjS-x4O_KuapPgY&r=F2GFXrjLFqVo3VwvIlo_XYeEiRRjHv15rxcenz7A21woG2aFGcrzndoSsskxfmOs&m=Lfa5Mgr764_zozOIScYSA3G2Du9ujGDqM_yaq-XfzVI&s=pcx8KdX3I7D3Z4Mz_du6m3Rn_T1YIjOMmjbBewH8JE8&e=> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
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