I do have a dd-wrt router enabled router and it also connects via VPN (that's 
how I get my Netflix!).

But I don't recall being able to select which traffic goes to the VPN and which 
not.

K

On 23 May 2012, at 12:01, Raphael Borg Ellul Vincenti wrote:

> Actually if you have DD-WRT its a piece of cake. I suggest it to any user who 
> has a home router which is dd-wrt compatible.
> The benefits go well beyond the scope of this thread, but don't be 
> intimidated. Most VPN providers support dd-wrt.
> 
> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Keith Vassallo <[email protected]> wrote:
> Agreed. 
> 
> 
> Though its not so easy to setup a VPN, as well as rules to route DNS traffic 
> to it. At least for the average user.
> 
> K
> 
> On 23 May 2012, at 10:49, Raphael Borg Ellul Vincenti wrote:
> 
>> Best thing I can suggest is running the DNS traffic over a VPN and hosting a 
>> local DNS caching server on your network
>> 
>> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Anton Xuereb <[email protected]> wrote:
>> that still wouldn't work as they simple capture all traffic on port 53 and 
>> redirect transparently to their own servers
>> 
>> 
>> On 23 May 2012 10:37, Keith Vassallo <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I personally stopped using GO a long time ago, and can proudly say that my 
>> house has NONE of GO's services... not even a fixed line.
>> 
>> Melita does not have this problem. Yet. Remember that by blocking trackers 
>> and bittorrent, they're not just bowing the IP holders, but more importantly 
>> for them they're hugely reducing the amount of bandwidth they need. 
>> 
>> I can't test this at home, because I'm on Melita, however...
>> 
>> Does GO have domains to point to its DNS servers, or just as IP? In the 
>> latter case you could modify your local hosts file to make the domain 
>> resolve to Google's DNS servers, or OpenDNS or something similar. 
>> 
>> K
>> 
>> 
>> On 23 May 2012, at 09:57, Anton Xuereb wrote:
>> 
>>> glad to have helped. P.S. Their 25mbit fibre with 1.5mbit upload is 
>>> deeeeeeeeliciousss
>>> 
>>> On 23 May 2012 09:55, Ramon Casha <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I suspect that the nefarious role was the intended effect. Thanks for 
>>> telling me about Melita. I'll probably switch everything over pretty soon.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Ramon Casha
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 23 May 2012 09:14, Anton Xuereb <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I'v been aware of this setup for quite some time now. Afaik the initial 
>>> reason for this setup was that since they bought so many competitors, they 
>>> resolved to this tactic instead of having to contact all their customers to 
>>> change DNS settings. Ofcourse, this setup seems to now have taken a more 
>>> nefarious role. 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 23 May 2012 09:10, Paul Morley <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Yes that has happen to me a few times,
>>> I think their spam filtering zaps the message but unfortunately it does not 
>>> tell the sender the email has been block and and not sent also it doesn't 
>>> tell the receiver that the message was blocked, so he will never know a 
>>> message was sent in the first place...!!    
>>> 
>>> On 05/23/2012 06:27 AM, Daniel wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> From my experience with Melita....I send some particular emails with 
>>>> attachments and they finish somewhere in cyperspace....there  is NO 
>>>> acknowledgement that the email has been withheld (for any medieval reason 
>>>> maybe!!) for the sender and neither to the receiver!!!
>>>> 
>>>> On 23/05/12 06:03, Ramon Casha wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120521/letters/Internet-privacy.420660
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Ramon Casha
>>>>> 
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