said by silbaco:graphic intensive on the other end...performs optimally on at least 5mbps connection with a latency of ~60ms or lower.
Linux performs much better than MicroSlow...
Chances are, many of these VPN like programs are fat bandwidth hogs that have not been dieting, like Linux does.
In other words, these programers have taken the easy path, which bloats programs, and pigs out on bandwidth.
Since programmers have no mandate to conserve bytes, then most all could care less about how much is transmitted over internet.