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From: msg on 18 Apr 2008 11:07
Bill Kearney wrote:

>> I also have PPTP VPN terminations
>> setup on my office and home routers. With DSL lines, it's *REALLY*
>> slow. I use these only for checking if I have any email or testing.
>
>
> I've had VPN's setup at home for quite a while. I would not call it
> "really slow". It's as fast as your uplink speed. I've had a 1.5/512
> connection for a while and it's certainly faster than a 768/128.
>
> One other alternative to VPN is to use a remote desktop session. This
> way you connect to your home PC as a video client. RDP takes about 20k
> per session, more than usable over a 128k link. You can't watch full
> motion video through it but it's good for nearly everything else.

<snip>

Agreed. RDP is a great solution and if you use 'rdesktop' (be sure to
follow the development threads regarding security and other issues), you
don't need to buy TSCALs. Full motion video ain't so intolerable on
faster links too.

> The single biggest hassle to using your own home connection is the
> dynamic IP address. Sign up for a dynamic DNS service and set it up on
> your router. I'll work well enough most of the time.

Lots of independent ISPs will give you a /30 for real cheap -- a better
solution than dynamic DNS.

Michael
From: SMS on 19 Apr 2008 13:57
Jeff Liebermann wrote:

> Sonic runs IPSec which is about as good as it gets. If you can live
> with PPTP or an SSL VPN, you can terminate the VPN with any commodity
> router that supports PPTP or SSL VPN's, or a Linux server, or even a
> Windoze 2000/2003 server. The catch is that the box or server has to
> be sitting on a fat pipe, which usually means sitting in the ISP's
> server farm.

Yeah, that's why I don't do my own. I had Sonic until earlier this week.
I gave them a lot of chances to fix their service, but it was
unbelievably flaky, somewhere between my DSL modem and them. Then I
realized that they had upped my price from $30 to $50/month, and I was
getting under 1Mb/s throughput, so I went back to AT&T. While the tech
support at AT&T is unbelievably horrendous, so far (1 day) the actual
DSL service works much better with no intermittent drops several times
an hour.

> One that looks interesting is iPig:
> <http://www.iopus.com/iPig/>
> which offers a free VPN server (iPig Server Express Edition):
> <http://www.iopus.com/iPig/download/>
> I haven't tried it, but if you have a Windoze box running somewhere,
> it might be an easy solution.

I don't think it's free anymore, except for very limited periods of time.

I'm trying out Jwire now.
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