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Grab a DO instance for $5/month, install openvpn on it, set it to serve over tcp & port 443 if you have to and then shove your DNS and everything else through t
by corford 12y ago
Grab a DO instance for $5/month, install openvpn on it, set it to serve over tcp & port 443 if you have to and then shove your DNS and everything else through that. Yes it's sad this is necessary but it's easy to do, costs virtually nothing and lets you sidestep most ISP filtering policies with the added bonus of protecting your traffic from whatever random wifi network you happen to be using to access the internet that day. If that's too much like hard work, there are also hundreds of 'VPN as a service' providers out there that will do it all for you for less than $7/month.
Either way, it seems more and more quaint to me that anyone connecting via a mainstream ISP assumes they'll get an unadulterated feed to the internet. If you're an adult and want to decide for yourself how you'll use the internet, get a VPN in place and relegate your ISP to being a dumb bit pipe.
- frandroid 12y agoThe point is that Joe User won't be able, shouldn't have to do this.
- corford 12y agoDefinitely true neither they nor we should have to do it. Fortunately, there are still some good ISPs left in the UK. I'm with Andrews & Arnold and they're staunch supporters of an uncensored net (http://www.aa.net.uk/kb-broadband-realinternet.html http://www.aa.net.uk/kb-broadband-realinternet.html). They're also just generally awesome - dual homed static IPv4 and IPv6 addressing, a geek answers the phone if you ever have reason to call, you can choose your backhaul transit provider and lots of other nice things. You can even opt for billing that follows the lunar cycle :) Regardless of ISP though, I think even Joe User should figure out how to install & use a managed VPN service for when they're out and about using random wifi networks (e.g. from privateinternetaccess.com or similar). Of course, that assumes these VPN services are trustworthy which I'm sure a lot aren't...
- simi_ 12y agoThen automate it and charge $6 per month. :)