Throttling and SafeVPN

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 03:15:05PM -0400, James Knott wrote:
> Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>> On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 01:10:37AM -0400, JoeHill wrote:
>>> Saw this when digging around re this whole throttling issue:
>>>
>>> http://safevpn.net/
>>>
>>> Anyone have any thoughts or experience with this kind of service? How difficult
>>> would it be for a community to set something like this up for themselves?
>>
>> Some ISPs are throthling all encrypted traffic, making VPNs work very
>> badly (annoying people trying to work remotely when at home trying to
>> reach the office).
>>
>
> With OpenVPN, you can use almost any UDP or TCP port, which makes it  
> difficult for an ISP to identify it as a VPN.

The ISPs are not *trying* to piss off VPN users - they are trying to
throttle torrents.  Since a great deal of torrent traffic is now
encrypted, the ISPs do traffic shaping based on encryption, because they
do not know what service might be encrypted.  Similar to VPN, if you are
doing work via SSH you will see throttling - making SCP and SSHFS very
tiresome to use where they were previously very convenient.
-- 

yours,

William

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