Lee,

I posted this for your response, I wanted your expert input.  Thanks. 

John

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> 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.
> 
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