WSJ: AT&T Is Dying > sigh at&t...

sigh at&t...

Easy to fix: run a PPTP VPN for a few bucks per month to a Xen-based VPS in a nearby data center. Your traffic is encrypted 128-bit until it reaches the DC, and AT&T has better things to do than crack 128-bit encryption (read: look at unencrypted connunications).

Also helps with non-protocol-agnostic throttling. Or at least has the placebo effect on me

reply to dib22
Once again, I have to say... It was not only at&t. Why do the sheep keep forgetting Verizon was guilty of it also. Oh yea, I forgot, being snuggly with verizon is the new cool.

reply to iansltx
I guess you learn something new every day! Hadn't heard of VPSes even though I do use IPSec to VPN to my home network. Didn't realize there were subscription options to go the other way. . .

Thanks for the post!
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Tradition: Just because you've always done it that way doesn't mean it's not incredibly stupid. --despair.com

A VPS aka Virtual Private Server is a "slice" of a server in a data center that you can pretty much do everything with that you could with a "normal" server. Run the VPS on Xen and remove the "pretty much". So you can load up pptpd, tweak the settings and turn your VPS into a PPTP VPN server in maybe fifteen minutes. Pretty cool stuff, really.

reply to cudanew
no i have no love for Verizon either... but we only have testimony of at&t's involvement... if you look at who went running to congress youll find that the only 2 not invoved were tmobile and qwest.

at&t used to protect consumers from govt eavesdropping back in the day... of course this thing were calling at&t is just Southwestern Bell (SBC) with a new brand on it...

reply to iansltx

Problem is, it only works 1E-30% of the time