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How one man bypassed Internet congestion and fixed his Netflix streaming

27 points by 01Michael10 12y ago

opendais 12y ago
I'm kind of surprised this is HN-worthy news. Using a VPN that routes around Level3 is an effective and obvious bandaid to members of the tech community...
- dang 12y ago
  > I'm kind of surprised this is HN-worthy news. It isn't. I just overwrote a bunch of data by mistake and cancelled some penalties that are normally applied to these. Will fix. Edit: Fixed. It's tempting to turn all that off on purpose, just to see what would happen. But we won't.
  - PeterWhittaker 12y ago
    It is relevant, as it shows us that the general public is now being informed of solutions and approaches that we've known about a long time. This serves us in two ways: It reminds that most people do not live in our world and reminds us that we do not live in the world of most people. If we are to be successful in our businesses, we must leave the echo chamber and understand life outside.
- mariusmg 12y ago
  Tommorrow on HN. How to switch to the HMTL5 player on Youtube.
  - manicdee 12y ago
    … and discover that over half the videos on YouTube are not available to the HTML5 player.
- ProAm 12y ago
  Well it does prove that for $15 a month you can bypass all the childish behavior of the companies involved. I think that makes it worthy.
  - charlesism 12y ago
    It's only $15 if you have a VPN provider with decent terms. If you're streaming HD video over your VPN all month, you might have to pay for going over a monthly cap.
- digitalboss 12y ago
  well it's only 17pts at this moment - but it's a timely post since it's another good reminder that it's the last day to send net neutrality comments to FCC http://www.fcc.gov/comments http://www.fcc.gov/comments.
CWuestefeld 12y ago
Getting it running this way on a desktop is trivial. But does anybody have experience setting up my DD-WRT router so that everybody in the network benefits from it? That's a bit past my skill level, and so would be very interesting to me at least.
s8n 12y ago
Couldn't Hyperboria/cjdns do something similar? Or manually changing routes somehow...
Babu1 12y ago
In france it became common to bypass the isp "Free" (not actually free) with VPN or SSH tunnel to be able to watch videos on Youtube or Download heavy apps on Google Play. We lost our net neutrality since so long

27 points by 01Michael10 12y ago

I'm kind of surprised this is HN-worthy news. Using a VPN that routes around Level3 is an effective and obvious bandaid to members of the tech community...

dang 12y ago
> I'm kind of surprised this is HN-worthy news. It isn't. I just overwrote a bunch of data by mistake and cancelled some penalties that are normally applied to these. Will fix. Edit: Fixed. It's tempting to turn all that off on purpose, just to see what would happen. But we won't.
- PeterWhittaker 12y ago
  It is relevant, as it shows us that the general public is now being informed of solutions and approaches that we've known about a long time. This serves us in two ways: It reminds that most people do not live in our world and reminds us that we do not live in the world of most people. If we are to be successful in our businesses, we must leave the echo chamber and understand life outside.
mariusmg 12y ago
Tommorrow on HN. How to switch to the HMTL5 player on Youtube.
- manicdee 12y ago
  … and discover that over half the videos on YouTube are not available to the HTML5 player.
ProAm 12y ago
Well it does prove that for $15 a month you can bypass all the childish behavior of the companies involved. I think that makes it worthy.
- charlesism 12y ago
  It's only $15 if you have a VPN provider with decent terms. If you're streaming HD video over your VPN all month, you might have to pay for going over a monthly cap.
digitalboss 12y ago
well it's only 17pts at this moment - but it's a timely post since it's another good reminder that it's the last day to send net neutrality comments to FCC http://www.fcc.gov/comments http://www.fcc.gov/comments.

CWuestefeld 12y ago

Getting it running this way on a desktop is trivial. But does anybody have experience setting up my DD-WRT router so that everybody in the network benefits from it? That's a bit past my skill level, and so would be very interesting to me at least.

s8n 12y ago

Couldn't Hyperboria/cjdns do something similar? Or manually changing routes somehow...

Babu1 12y ago

In france it became common to bypass the isp "Free" (not actually free) with VPN or SSH tunnel to be able to watch videos on Youtube or Download heavy apps on Google Play. We lost our net neutrality since so long