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
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! -- 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.
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).
Your 128 bit encryption is meaningless with my quantum brute force decryptor.
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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. . .