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I actually did this for several years, with the added benefit that any number of my (trusted) friends could piggyback on it, given we weren't all using at once.

I actually did this for several years, with the added benefit that any number of my (trusted) friends could piggyback on it, given we weren't all using at once. There are dozens of great guides on this, DigitalOcean even hosts some of their own that you can practically copy paste blindly and be done. I'll be honest though, haha, 10% of my VPN usage is legitimate stuff and 90% is just so I can feel safe streaming things illegally that are otherwise hard to purchase. So I switched over to a third party for the simplicity. If I wanted to do more than avoid an email from my ISP I would definitely go back to rolling my own. (I'm also grandfathered into PIA's older cheaper price tier which makes it easier).

throwaway8941 7y ago
>an email from my ISP That's pretty funny. I am from Kazakhstan myself and our largest (pretty much monopolist) internet provider has been encouraging ""piracy"" for as long as I can remember. About 10 years ago a bunch of local media companies (making money from selling badly translated Hollywood movies/video games/etc) lobbied a new law making operating all torrent trackers illegal, and banning access to everything they could find carpet bombing-style. Well, the ban lasted for less than a week, and was lifted after some heavy lobbying by said provider, who was beginning to lose a share of their most valuable customers. Here's another anecdote: in ~2012, when I was getting an FTTH connection, their representative used a popular torrent on my machine to measure the upload/download speeds through the freshly laid cable.
- big_chungus 7y ago
  You're kidding; Kazakhstan has FTTH? I'm in America and still not even close...
  - throwaway8941 7y ago
    Yeah. I pay $10/month for 100 Mb/s with very stable upload and download speeds. You can get 1 Gb/s for $50/mo. I have been serving 10-20 TB each month with no complaints from my provider. But you have to remember that we make something like 5-10 times less than Americans. 100 Mb/s is still very affordable though.
  - lunchables 7y ago
    There is FTTH in more places than you might realize: https://broadbandnow.com/Fiber https://broadbandnow.com/Fiber I live in Nashville and we have FTTH from both AT&T and Google as well as gigabit service from Comcast. I think the problem is the US is really, really big and we widely deployed cable which has been "good enough" (DOCSIS 3.x at 300, 500Mb/s or more) that there historically hasn't been much incentive for people to deploy really expensive fiber networks. But it is certainly improving all the time. I think services like Starlink and fixed 5G are really driving carriers to start deploying more fiber to compete.

throwaway8941 7y ago

>an email from my ISP That's pretty funny. I am from Kazakhstan myself and our largest (pretty much monopolist) internet provider has been encouraging ""piracy"" for as long as I can remember. About 10 years ago a bunch of local media companies (making money from selling badly translated Hollywood movies/video games/etc) lobbied a new law making operating all torrent trackers illegal, and banning access to everything they could find carpet bombing-style. Well, the ban lasted for less than a week, and was lifted after some heavy lobbying by said provider, who was beginning to lose a share of their most valuable customers. Here's another anecdote: in ~2012, when I was getting an FTTH connection, their representative used a popular torrent on my machine to measure the upload/download speeds through the freshly laid cable.

big_chungus 7y ago
You're kidding; Kazakhstan has FTTH? I'm in America and still not even close...
- throwaway8941 7y ago
  Yeah. I pay $10/month for 100 Mb/s with very stable upload and download speeds. You can get 1 Gb/s for $50/mo. I have been serving 10-20 TB each month with no complaints from my provider. But you have to remember that we make something like 5-10 times less than Americans. 100 Mb/s is still very affordable though.
- lunchables 7y ago
  There is FTTH in more places than you might realize: https://broadbandnow.com/Fiber https://broadbandnow.com/Fiber I live in Nashville and we have FTTH from both AT&T and Google as well as gigabit service from Comcast. I think the problem is the US is really, really big and we widely deployed cable which has been "good enough" (DOCSIS 3.x at 300, 500Mb/s or more) that there historically hasn't been much incentive for people to deploy really expensive fiber networks. But it is certainly improving all the time. I think services like Starlink and fixed 5G are really driving carriers to start deploying more fiber to compete.